GANGTOK, India, Aug. 29 -- Sikkim High Court issued the following judgment/order on Aug. 6: Meenakshi Madan Rai, J. 1. Crl.A. No.10 of 2024 (Ranjit Ghimirey vs. State of Sikkim) and Crl.A. No.11 of 2024 (Madan Subba vs. State of Sikkim), are being disposed of by this common Judgment. 2. For brevity, the Appellant in Crl.A. No.10 of 2024, shall be referred to as "A1" and the Appellant in Crl.A. No.11 of 2024 as "A2". 3. A1 was convicted and sentenced to undergo simple imprisonment for a term ...
GANGTOK, India, Aug. 29 -- Sikkim High Court issued the following judgment/order on Aug. 25: I.A. No.01/2025 1. The applicant was convicted vide Judgment dated 25.03.2025 and sentenced vide Order on Sentence dated 26.03.2025 under Section 7 punishable under Section 8 of the Protection of Children and Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO Act) with rigorous imprisonment for a term of three years and to pay a fine of Rs.2000/-; and further under Section 11(iv) punishable under section 12 of the POCSO ...
GANGTOK, India, Aug. 29 -- Sikkim High Court issued the following judgment/order on Aug. 18: Rai, J. Heard Learned Additional Public Prosecutor. Compliance report dated 06-08-2025, has been filed on behalf of the State-Appellant. Costs of rs 20,000/- (Rupees twenty thousand) only, have been made over to the Respondent in Compliance to the Order of this Court dated 14-05-2025, as his journey expenses from Jhunjhunu District, Rajasthan, to Gangtok, Sikkim. The said amount has been paid to him an...
GANGTOK, India, Aug. 29 -- Sikkim High Court issued the following judgment/order on Aug. 13: The moot question 1. The question that falls for determination is whether the writ petition filed in the year 2020 by the auction purchaser who had participated in an auction sale of the immovable property of the secured creditor under the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (the SARFAESI Act) in the year 2011 but failed to pay the deposit...
GANGTOK, India, Aug. 29 -- Sikkim High Court issued the following judgment/order on Aug. 13: Petitioners are present in person. Learned Counsel for Petitioners, as required vide Order of this Court dated 12-08-2025, has filed an Affidavit on the same date duly furnishing copies of the Order Sheets of the Court of the Learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, District Gyalshing, Sikkim, in GR Case No.11 of 2024. It is submitted by Learned Counsel for the Petitioners that the instant Petition is rende...
GANGTOK, India, Aug. 29 -- Sikkim High Court issued the following judgment/order on Aug. 13: 1. Heard Learned Senior Counsel for the Respondent on I.A. No.02 of 2025, which is an application under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (hereinafter, "Cr.P.C.") seeking Bail. He submits that the Respondent was unable to appear before the Court on the date fixed as he was of the belief that the matter was posted on 06-06-2025, whereas it was taken up on 02-06-2025 and NBWA issued agai...
GANGTOK, India, Aug. 29 -- Sikkim High Court issued the following judgment/order on Aug. 13: Rai, J. Heard Learned Assistant Public Prosecutor on I.A. No.01 of 2025, which is an application filed under Section 5 of the Limitation Act, 1963, seeking condonation of thirtyseven days' delay in filing the instant Appeal. Learned Counsel for the Respondent has no objection to the Petition. We have heard Learned Counsel for the parties and given due consideration to their submissions. We have peruse...
GANGTOK, India, Aug. 29 -- Sikkim High Court issued the following judgment/order on Aug. 13: 1. The Court of the Special Judge (POCSO Act, 2012), South Sikkim, at Namchi, vide Judgment dated 30-06-2022, in ST(POCSO) Case No.27 of 2020 (State of Sikkim vs. Rup Narayan Rai (Chamling) and Others) acquitted the Respondent No.1 of the following offences; (a) under Sections 5(l) and 5(n), both punishable under Section 6 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (hereinafter, the POCSO Ac...
GANGTOK, India, Aug. 29 -- Sikkim High Court issued the following judgment/order on Aug. 7: Rai, J. On Mention Memo being filed for listing, this matter on 13-08-2025, this matter is taken up for consideration today. Heard on I.A. No.02 of 2025. Bail granted. Order pronounced orally in open Court. Detailed Order vide separate sheets of paper. I.A. No.02 of 2025 stands disposed of. Heard Learned Additional Public Prosecutor on I.A. No.01 of 2025, which is an application filed under Section 5 ...
GANGTOK, India, Aug. 29 -- Sikkim High Court issued the following judgment/order on Aug. 7: The Petitioner is aggrieved by the Order dated 27-06- 2022, of the Assistant Commissioner, Central Goods and Service Tax, Gangtok Division, vide which it was inter alia ordered that the taxpayer had claimed budgetary support of Rs.59,44,977/- (Rupees fifty nine lakhs, forty four thousand, nine hundred and seventy seven) only, however, on verification it is found that the eligible budgetary support payabl...