CUTTACK, India, May 1 -- Orissa High Court issued the following order on March 31:

1. The Petitioner has filed the instantCriminal Appeal under Section 378 (1) and (3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973/ Section 419 (1) and (3) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, invoking the appellant jurisdiction of this Court. The appeal is preferred against the Judgment dated 28.02.2005 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Jeypore, in Criminal Appeal No. 16 of 2004 arising out of P.S. Case No. 100 of 2002, whereby the Respondent was charged under Section 498A and Section 306 of Indian Penal Code and was thereby acquitted under Section 235 of Cr.P.C.for the offences.

I. FACTUAL MATRIX OF THE CASE:

2. The Prosecution story i...