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Chhattisgarh High Court Acquits Man in 2019 POCSO Case Over Evidence Gaps
The Chhattisgarh High Court has overturned the conviction of Prasen Kumar Bhargav, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for the alleged abduction and sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl in 2019. A division bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Bibhu Datta Guru delivered the ruling on 20 November 2025, holding that the…
Chhattisgarh High Court overturns acquittal, convicts two in Bilaspur Khandelwal murder
The High Court of Chhattisgarh set aside a 2016 acquittal and convicted two men for the 2013 murder of Dashrath Lal Khandelwal, finding that eyewitness testimony, a test identification parade, extra-judicial admissions and forensic evidence together established their guilt. The court sitting before Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Bibhu Datta Guru held that the…