Citation : 2022 Latest Caselaw 2959 Tel
Judgement Date : 21 June, 2022
HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K.SURENDER
CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 154 of 2020
JUDGMENT:
1. Learned Assistant Public Prosecutor submits that the
present appeal is filed seeking enhancement of the
punishment inflicted on the respondent/accused vide
judgment in S.C.No.76 of 2017 on 24.10.2019 by the learned
Assistant Sessions Judge at Adilabad.
2. The respondent/accused was convicted and sentenced to
undergo simple imprisonment for a period of five years for the
offence punishable under Section 306 of IPC and also
sentenced to pay fine of Rs.1,000/- and in default of payment
of fine, to under simple imprisonment for a period of three
months.
3. Learned Assistant Public Prosecutor submits that since
the conviction was recorded by the learned Assistant Sessions
Judge and the conviction being five years, the appeal must
have been filed before the District and Sessions Judge.
4. In the said circumstances, when the appeal is filed before
the concerned District and Sessions Judge, it is for the State
to seek enhancement in the said appeal.
5. For the aforesaid reasons, this Criminal Appeal is not
maintainable before this Court for the aforementioned reason
and the same is liable to be dismissed. Accordingly dismissed.
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K.SURENDER, J Date: 21.6.2022 tk/kvs
HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K.SURENDER
Criminal Appeal No.154 OF 2020
Date: 21.06.2022
tk/kvs
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