IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl. R. No.2401 of 2009 (O&M) Date of Decision:14.12.2010 Raj .... Petitioner Versus State of Haryana and others .... Respondents CORAM: Hon'ble Ms. Justice Nirmaljit Kaur Present: None for the petitioner. Mr. Vikas Malik, A.A.G. Haryana. Mr. N.C. Kinra, Advocate for respondents No.2 to 5 and 7. Mr. S.P. Chahar, Advocate for respondent No.6. **** 1.Whether Reporters of Local Newspapers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2.To be referred to the Reporters or not? 3.Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? NIRMALJIT KAUR, J.(Oral) The present revision petition has been directed against the order of acquittal dated 10.12.2008 passed by the Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Rohtak. Section 372 of Cr.P.C. reads as under: “372. No appeal to lie unless otherwise provided.- No appeal shall lie from any judgment or order of a Criminal Court except as provided for by this Code or by any other law for the time being in force: (Provided that the victim shall have a right to prefer an appeal against any order passed by the Court acquitting the accused or convicting for a lesser offence or imposing inadequate compensation, and such appeal shall lie to the Court to which an appeal ordinarily lies against the order of conviction of such Court.)” As per the above amendment in Section 372 of Cr.P.C., the appeal by the victim against the said order shall lie to the Court of Sessions. Accordingly, the present petition is dismissed with liberty to file an appeal before the Sessions Court in view of the above amendment. Crl. R. No.2401 of 2009 (O&M) -2- However, in case the said appeal is filed within 30 days from today, respondents shall not raise any objection on the ground of limitation for the period after filing the present petition before this Court. 14.12.2010 ( NIRMALJIT KAUR ) rajeev JUDGE