CR.A/1613/2012

NEUTRAL CITATION R/CR.A/1613/2012 JUDGMENT DATED: 01/12/2025 2025:GUJHC:69109 IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD R/CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 1613 of 2012 FOR APPROVAL AND SIGNATURE: HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE SANJEEV J.THAKER Sd/- ========================================================== Approved for Reporting Yes No ✔ ========================================================== STATE OF GUJARAT Versus POPATBHAI DHUDABHAI & ANR. ========================================================== Appearance: MS SHRUTI PATHAK, APP for the Appellant(s) No. 1 RULE SERVED for the Opponent(s)/Respondent(s) No. 1 ========================================================== CORAM:HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE SANJEEV J.THAKER Date : 01/12/2025 ORAL JUDGMENT 1. Feeling aggrieved by and dissatisfied with the judgment and order of acquittal dated 28.5.2012 passed by the learned 2ND Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhavnagar, in Criminal Case No.4259 of 2002 for the offences punishable under Sections 337 and 504 of the Indian Penal Code, the appellant – State of Gujarat has preferred this appeal under Section 378 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short, “the Code”). 2. The prosecution case as unfolded during the