for grazing. When the cattle did not return home in the evening, he searched for the same, but could not find the cattle. He lodged FIR vide Ex.P/1. After two days, i.e. on 15.06.1993 PS Dabara received information that applicant- Gopi was going to sell two theft buffaloes in the cattle market on that day. On receiving this information, Police went to the cattle market and took possession of the said buffaloes on suspicion vide Ex.P/4 and registered Rojnamchasanha No.488 vide Ex.P/5. When Complainant- Gangaram came to know that his lost buffaloes were found and they were with the Police, he went there, identified the cattle and submitted receipt of purchase of the bufalloes (Ex.P/2) for supurdnama. After completion of investigation, charge-sheet was filed against the applicant in the Court of Judicial Magistrate First Class, Baloda Bazar. Criminal Case No.512 of 1993 was registered against the applicant and by the judgment dated 23.10.2003 he was convicted and sentenced as mentioned above in the first paragraph of this order. Being aggrieved by this judgment, the applicant preferred Criminal Appeal- 314 of 2003 before the Court of Session at Baloda Bazar in which the First Additional Sessions Judge, Baloda Bazar by judgment dated 14.05.2004, dismissed the criminal appeal and affirmed the judgment of conviction and order of sentence passed by the Judicial Magistrate First Class, against which this revision has been preferred by the applicant.
