In Brief
A teacher in Karnataka was acquitted at trial for assaulting a second-standard student with a stick, causing permanent loss of vision in one eye. The High Court reversed the acquittal and convicted him under Section 326 IPC, sentencing him to two years imprisonment. The Supreme Court upheld the reversal as the evidence of the child victim and corroborating witnesses was credible, but modified the conviction to Section 325 IPC (voluntarily causing grievous hurt) as the stick was not proven to be a dangerous weapon. The Court reduced the sentence to one year with a fine of Rs.50,000 as compensation, accounting for the 22-year delay since the 1996 incident.
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