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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.886 OF 2020 (Arising out of SLP (Criminal) No.6684 of 2020
Arising out of Diary No.20424 of 2020)
SUBEDAR Appellant
VERSUS
STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH Respondent
O R D E R
Leave granted.
This appeal challenges the order dated 06.04.2017 passed
by the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad dismissing
Criminal Appeal No.2798 of 1988.
The appellant and one Buddhu were convicted under Section
302 read with Section 34 IPC and were sentenced to suffer life
imprisonment by the Trial Court.
Criminal Appeal Nos.2798 and 2882 of 1988 were preferred
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by said convicted accused respectively challenging their
conviction and sentence. Accused Buddhu expired during the
pendency of the appeal and the proceedings in relation to him
stood abated.
The appeal preferred by the appellant came up before the
High Court and opening sentences in the judgment passed by the
High Court were as under:
“List has been revised. None appears on behalf of the appellant to press this appeal, although, name of Sri Malik Sayeed Uddin and Sri C.K. Jha are printed in the cause list, as counsel for the appellant.”
Thereafter, the High Court went into the matter and
affirmed the view taken by the Trial Court.
One of the submissions urged on behalf of the appellant ...