2014 INSC 0792
03/11/2015        SURINDER KAUR Vs. STATE OF HARYANA

SURINDER KAUR Vs. STATE OF HARYANA
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SURINDER KAUR            LAWS(SC)2014998                                 Appellant
STATE OF HARYANA      Supreme Court Of India                         Respondents
                  Decided on September 18,2014

                                   VERSUS

JUDGEMENT

A.K. Goel, J.  ( 1. ) THESE appeals have been filed by Surinder Kaur, Ravinder Kaur,
Jasbir Kaur, Balwinder Kaur, Amar Nath and Sukhwinder Kaur against the common
judgment dated 26th March, 2009 of the High Court of Punjab & Haryana at Chandigarh in
Criminal Appeal Nos. 689SB, 708SB, 780SB, 711SB, 807SB and 752SB, and of 2006
respectively arising out of the conviction and sentence recorded by the Special Judge,
Ambala holding all the Appellants guilty Under Section 120B of the Indian Penal Code (for
short the "Indian Penal Code") and sentencing them to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a
period of two years and to pay a fine of Rs. 200/ each, and in default of payment of fine to
undergo imprisonment for 15 days. Except Amar Nath, all others have been found guilty
Under Section 218, 466 and 474 Indian Penal Code and Under Section 13(1)(d) of the
Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 punishable Under Section 13(2) of the Act and
sentenced by the trial Court as follows: All the sentences were ordered to run concurrently.
( 2. ) THE High Court confirmed the above conviction and sentence with the modification
that sentence has been reduced to one year instead of two years while maintaining the
sentence of fine. Fir No. 20 dated 18th December, 1997 was registered at Vigilance Bureau,
Ambala with the allegation that on 29th August, 1996, Gurdev Singh, Sant Ram etc. of
Village Kurbanpur were attacked by Amar Nath etc. of the said village. The Appellant Dr.
Ravinder Kaur created false evidence of Amar Nath being admitted to Community Health
Centre at Chaurmastpur prior to the occurrence. Appellants Jasbir Kaur, Surinder Kaur,
Balwinder Kaur, Sukhwinder Kaur who were staff nurses/Pharmacist also made false
entries/overwriting/cuttings in the record of the hospital. An enquiry was conducted and
these facts were established. After investigation, the accused were sent up for trial.
( 3. ) THE prosecution examined 16 witnesses and produced FSL Report (Ex. PE) about the
hand writing of the accused in the record of the hospital. The accused pleaded innocence
and submitted that Dr. K.S. Rana (PW 11) was inimical to Dr. Ravinder Kaur on account of
which the accused were falsely implicated. The defence examined Prem Prakash Sharma
(DW 1), Vikash Sharma (DW 2) and Record Keeper Ajay Rao (DW 3). 

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