PATNA, India, Oct. 3 -- Patna High Court issued the following judgment on Sept. 1:

The present criminal appeal has been preferred under Section 413 of the B.N.S.S. against the judgment of acquittal dated 08.10.2024 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge-V, Begusarai in Sessions Trial No. 1027 of 2023, arising out of Nawkothi P.S. Case No. 21 of 2021, whereby Respondent Nos. 2 to 8 have been acquitted by the learned Trial Court from the charge of Sections 302/34 and 120(B) of Indian Penal Code and Section 27 of the Arms Act.

2. The prosecution case, as per the fardbeyan of the informant, is that on 16.02.2021, the informant, along with his father, Late Ganesh Poddar, and his brother, Chandan Kumar, reached the kirana shop of Bauel...