CR.A/694/2012

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NEUTRAL CITATION R/CR.A/694/2012 JUDGMENT DATED: 23/06/2026 2026:GUJHC:38280 IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD R/CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 694 of 2012 FOR APPROVAL AND SIGNATURE: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT M. PRACHCHHAK Sd/- ========================================================== Approved for Reporting Yes No No ========================================================== STATE OF GUJARAT Versus CHAUDHRY ASHOKBHAI BALDEVBHAI ========================================================== Appearance: MS JIRGA JHAVERI ADDL. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR for the Appellant(s) No. 1 MR TEJAS P SATTA(3149) for the Opponent(s)/Respondent(s) No. 1 RULE SERVED for the Opponent(s)/Respondent(s) No. 1 ========================================================== CORAM:HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HEMANT M. PRACHCHHAK Date : 23/06/2026 ORAL JUDGMENT 1. The appellant-State has preferred this appeal under Section 378 (1)(3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 against the judgment and order dated 18.02.2012 passed by the learned Special Judge & Additional Sessions Judge, Gandhinagar (hereinafter be referred to as “the Trial Court”) in Criminal Case No. 32 of 2009, whereby the trial Court has acquitted the original accused-respondent from the offence punishable under Section 135 (1)(b) of the Indian Electricity Act (hereinafter be referred to as the “Act”). 2. The short facts of the case are that as per the complaint lodged by the complainant, Mr. Madhusudan Ambalal Upadhyay, Deputy Engineer, UGVCL, Mansa, on 02.09.2008, he had gone for electricity checking at Village Bapupura, Page 1 of 12 Uploaded by () on Downloaded on : Tue Jun 30 22:49:00 IST 2026 NEUTRAL CITATION R/CR.A/694/2012 JUDGMENT DATED: 23/06/2026 2026:GUJHC:38280 where he found that the present accused, though a regular consumer of the