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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO(s). OF 2024 (Arising out of SLP(Crl.) No. 672/2015)
RAVINDRA SINGH APPELLANT(S)
VERSUS
THE STATE OF UTTARAKHAND RESPONDENT(S)
ORDER
Leave granted.
The appellant was convicted for having
committed an offence punishable under Section 25 of
the Arms Act, 1959. The judgment of conviction and
sentence dated 30.10.2004 rendered by the Special
Judicial magistrate First Class, Pithoragarh in
Criminal Case No.95 of 2003 titled as “State Vs.
Ravindra Singh Lunthi”, was affirmed by the
Sessions Judge, Pithoragarh, vide its judgment
dated 07.03.2006 in Criminal Appeal No.34 of 2004,
titled as “Ravindra Singh Vs. State”, as also by
the High Court vide its judgment and order dated
27.05.2013 in Criminal Revision No.93 of 2006,
titled as “Ravinder Singh Vs. State of
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Uttaranchal”.
Undisputedly, the present appeal stands
preferred against the concurrent findings of fact
returned by the three Courts below.
However, having perused the materials on
record, we are of the considered view that the
appellant has made out a case for interference, for
what we find, is the Courts below to have misread
and misconstrued the evidence led by the
prosecution. The Court proceeded with the
presumption of th...