RANCHI, India, April 18 -- Jharkhand High Court issued the following order on March 18:
1. This Criminal Appeal has been filed on behalf of the appellant challenging the judgment of conviction dated 18.05.2007 and sentence dated 24.05.2007, passed in Sessions Trial No. 36 of 2006 by Shri Narendra Kumar Srivastava, then learned Sessions Judge, Lohardaga, by which the appellant has been convicted for the offence under Section 376 of the I.P.C. and sentenced to undergo R.I. for Seven (07) years and to pay a fine of Rs.15,000/- (Fifteen thousand) and in default of payment of fine, he was further sentenced to undergo R.I. for Two (02) years. However, the learned Trial Court has further directed that both the sentences will run consecutively and...