DINESH MURMU vs STATE OF THE NCT OF DELHI

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* 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, Signature Not Verified CRL.A. 973/2013 Page 1 of 17 Signed By:ASHOK KUMAR CHOUHAN Signing Date:17.04.2026 17:53:17 was aggrieved by the so called rampant corruption in Railways and had sought permission to stage a sit-in. He, in fact, had even given a notice to the Government about his proposed hunger strike/Anshan at Ramlila Maidan from 05.02.2012, but instead of granting the permission, he was allegedly falsely implicated in this case. 3. On the fateful day, i.e. on 15.02.2012 at about 1:45 PM, the victim- Bhagwan Singh was attacked by the Appellant with a “Farsa”. However, the assault was in full public glare at the “In Gate” of Rail Bhawan, Rafi Marg, New Delhi, where apart from a number of p