The judgment of the Madhya Pradesh High Court records the following account. On the night of 8-9 May 1990, BSF Head Constable, living upstairs in the same Tekanpur Academy quarter building, lured his 8-year-old neighbour upstairs on the pretext of opening a lock and sexually assaulted her. The trial court acquitted him under Sections 376/511 IPC on 8 April 1994 giving benefit of doubt over a contradictory medical re-examination. In the State's appeal under Section 378 CrPC, the Madhya Pradesh High Court held the trial court erred in recording a simpliciter acquittal as it was a clear-cut case of outraging the modesty of a minor girl, and that no fresh Section 354 charge was needed as it is a cognate offence under Section 222 CrPC. The Court set aside the acquittal, held him guilty under Section 354 IPC, and, noting almost 24 years had passed, imposed only a fine of Rs. 25,000 with six months' RI in default, issuing a non-bailable warrant as he remained absent.
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How verification works →By judgment dated 24 July 2014 in Criminal Appeal No. 577 of 2000, the Madhya Pradesh High Court (Coram: S.K. Palo, S.K. Gangele, JJ.) recorded the conviction of the Head Constable, BSF Tekanpur Academy.
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“Therefore, we set aside the judgment of acquittal and allow the appeal. We hold the accused/respondent [name withheld] guilty of offence u/s 354 of IPC.” (para 21)
The Madhya Pradesh High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.
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