DINESH MURMU vs STATE OF THE NCT OF DELHI

* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of reserving: 10th April, 2026 Date of Decision: 16th April, 2026 IN THE MATTER OF: CRL.A. 973/2013 DINESH MURMU .....Appellant Through: Mr. Rahul Shyam Bhandari, Ms. G. Priyadharshni & Mr. Satyam Pathak, Advs. Ms. Manika Tripathy, Adv. (DHCLSC). versus STATE OF THE NCT OF DELHI .....Respondent Through: Mr.Nawal Kishore Jha, APP for the State with SI Vijay Dahiya PS Model Town and SI Akanksha PS Parliament Street. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIMAL KUMAR YADAV JUDGMENT VIMAL KUMAR YADAV, J. 1. A futile attempt to stage a Dharna/sit-in protesting the corruption in Railways, landed the Appellant in a mess where not only a case under Section 307 Indian Penal Code, 1860 („IPC‟) was registered against him but he was ultimately held guilty and convicted too. 2. Precisely, the facts against the backdrop of which the impugned judgment of conviction dated 11.04.2013 and sentence dated 15.04.2013 emerged via FIR No. 21/2012, under Section 307 IPC, traversing through the trial reveals that the Appellant, who happened to be a Railway employee, 3. On the fateful day, i.e. on 15.02.2012 at about 1:45 PM, the victim- Bhagwan Singh was attacked by the A