Important Human Trafficking Case Law

----Ss. 17 & 22---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 417(2-A)---Human trafficking---Appeal against acquittal---Reappraisal of evidence---Complainant alleged that accused swindled amount in piecemeal from him on the pretext of sending him abroad but Trial Court acquitted the accused---Validity---Appraisement made by Trial Court for pronouncing judgment did not suffer from any legal defect and everything was dealt with lawfully by it---Accused won double presumption of innocence, one relating to basic principle of law that every accused was innocent till proved otherwise and the other through judicial verdict, passed by Trial Court---Judgment of acquittal could not be upset unless it could be shown that it was a product of non-reading, mis-reading or mis-appraisement of evidence or it had been passed arbitrarily or foolishly or it had resulted in miscarriage of justice---Judgment passed by Trial Court was not hit by any of such infirmities---High Court declined to interfere in the judgment of acquittal passed by Trial Court---Compromise between parties, as pressed into service by complainant was added factor not to undo the judgment in question---Appeal was dismissed in circumstances.