(Spl.-H.C.A.S.,C.D.,78-e) FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO. IN THE HIGH COURT OF BOMBAY AT GOA APPELLATE SIDE CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 74OF 2003. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Office Note, Office Memoranda of Quorum, appearances, Court’s Court’s or Judge’s Orders orders or directions and Registrar’s orders. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. S.D. Lotlikar, Senior Advocate with Miss S. Dessai, Advocate for the Appellant. Mr. S.N. Sardessai, Public Prosecutor for the Respondent State. Coram : P.V. HARDAS, J. Date : 23rd April 2004. P.C.: For the reasons which are separately recorded, the Criminal Appeal is allowed. The conviction and sentence of the appellant for offences punishable under Sections 452, 376(1) and 506 of the Indian Penal Code, passed by the Additional Sessions Judge, Mapusa, by Judgment, dated 10th December 2003, in Sessions Case No. 47 of 2001, are, hereby, quashed and set aside and the appellant is acquitted of the offences for which he was charged and convicted. Fine, if paid, be refunded to the appellant. - 2 - Appellant be released forthwith, if not wanted in any other case. P.V. HARDAS, J. ed’s.