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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.1128/2026 (@Special Leave Petition(Crl.) No.2375/2026)
MOHD PARVEZ ALAM Appellant(s)
VERSUS
STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH & ORS. Respondent(s)
WITH
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.1129/2026 (@Special Leave Petition(Crl.) No.2376/2026)
O R D E R
1. Leave granted.
2. Since the issues raised in both the captioned Criminal Appeals
are the same, those were taken up for hearing analogously and are
being disposed of by this common order.
3. These appeals arise from the Orders passed by the High Court
of Judicature at Allahabad dated 14-1-2026 in Criminal Appeal
No.9392/2022 and Criminal Appeal No.264/2023 respectively, by which
the High Court suspended the substantive orders of sentence of life
imprisonment imposed by the Trial Court against the accused persons
– herein in Sessions Trial No.7831/2007, arising out of Case Crime
No.6/2007 registered with Kakrauli Police Station, District
Muzaffar Nagar, U.P. for the offence punishable under Sections 147,
148 and 302 of the Indian Penal Code (for short the, “IPC”).
4. It is the case of the prosecution that on 2-1-2007, the first
informant, i.e., the appellant before us and his son Jan Mohammad
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had gone to offer namaz in a masjid.
5. At about 2.00 p.m., when they were about to leave for their
home from the masjid, the accused persons are ...