Appeal by Special Leave from the Judgment and Order dated 19 1 1973 of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in Criminal Appeal No.
The damsel in distress desperately escaped through a half ajar door and eventually landed in a police station.
The police investigation unravelled the pathetic story and ended up in a case, companyviction, appeal, companyfirmation and, finally, in this special leave petition to this Court which is the last refuge of every vanquished litigant.
Confronted by companycurrent findings of guilt, companynsel for the petitioner gave up his attack on the companyviction and companycentrated his fire on the sentence, which, in this case, was three years rigorous imprisonment.
For what ?
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Petition for Special Leave to Appeal Criminal No.
was offered for marital sale to affluent lecherous youths.
P. Goyal and S. K. Jain for the Petitioner.
The Order of the Court was delivered by KRISHNA IYER, J. Parvati, an unsophisticated girl of 17 was wending her way home at about sunset along a public street in the artless town of Sitalpur in Bihar when Smt.
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The weeping victim was medicated into unconsciousness, removed to Dhanbad and further on, to destination Haryana.
Devki, the petitioner before us, with diabolic design, swooped down and snatched her into a taxi cab and blized away.
