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Issues: Whether an appeal against acquittal passed by a Magistrate in a case involving cognizable and non-bailable offences lies to the High Court or to the Sessions Court under Section 378 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, and whether a mixed case involving both cognizable/non-bailable and other offences can be bifurcated for filing separate appeals.
Analysis: Section 378(1)(a) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 permits an appeal to the Sessions Court from an acquittal by a Magistrate in respect of a cognizable and non-bailable offence, while Section 378(1)(b) governs appeals to the High Court in other cases. The appeal provision creates a categorical bar against filing such an appeal before the High Court where the acquittal is by a Magistrate in a case involving cognizable and non-bailable offences. Where one criminal case contains multiple offences, the matter cannot be split into separate appeals on the basis of different sections or the cognizable or bailable character of individual offences.
Conclusion: The appeal before the High Court was not maintainable and had to be presented before the Sessions Court.
Final Conclusion: The challenge to the acquittal failed at the threshold for want of proper forum, and the State was left to pursue the remedy before the Sessions Court.
Ratio Decidendi: An appeal against acquittal by a Magistrate in a case involving cognizable and non-bailable offences lies to the Sessions Court and not to the High Court, and a single criminal case cannot be fragmented into multiple appeals on the basis of the nature of individual offences.
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