DHRUB NARAYAN SINHA Vs. STATE OF BIHAR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) ORDER :- This criminal revision application is directed against the order dated 27-5-1997 passed by 4th Additional Sessions Judge, Hazaribagh, in Criminal Revision No. 97 of 1997 whereby and whereunder the learned Additional Sessions Judge set aside the order of dismissal of complaint under Section 203 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (the Code) passed by the Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Hazaribagh, on 18-3-1997 in Complaint Case No. 481 of 1996.

(2.) The short facts of the complaint case as alleged is that the complainant and the petitioners are co-sharers and are residing in different portions of the same house which is an ancestral property of both the parties. It is further alleged that on 1-9-1996 at about 9 a.m., the accused persons/petitioners forcibly entered into the house of the complainant of which the wife of the complainant protested and she also informed her husband who was present at his medicine shop but the accused persons in the meantime started assaulting the wife of the complainant and also took away a box containing clothes and Rs. 5,000/-. The complainant and other witnesses also reached to the spot and saw the occurrence. Accordingly the complaint case was filed and enquiry was held under Section 202 of the Code. As many as five witnesses have been examined during enquiry but the learned Magistrate dismissed the complaint petition against which the complainant preferred revision before the Sessions Judge and after hearing both sides, the learned Additional Sessions Judge allowed the revision and remanded the matter for reconsideration to the trial Court by the impugned order.

(3.) Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners at the very outset submitted that the learned Additional Sessions Judge committed error in remanding the case to the trial Court when the trial Court has rightly dismissed the complaint case as no any independent or nearby witness has been examined to corroboration the story of assault or theft. It is also submitted that the allegation as made out is of civil nature and one partition suit is also pending between the parties and in order to harass the petitioners, this false case has been registered. It is further argued that a proceeding under Section 107 of the Code has already been initiated and the witnesses examined during enquiry are not reliable as they are outsiders. Learned counsel also relied upon the case of M/s. Pepsi Foods Limited v. Special Judicial Magistrate, 1997 (1) East Cri C 171 : (1998 Cri LJ 1) (SC).