OM PRAKASH Vs. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) By our order dated 24-2-2004, we have allowed the appeal and passed the following orders :

(2.) We now proceed to give our reasons for the said order.

(3.) This appeal was preferred from the judgment dated 18-11-1981 passed by Sri C. P. Singh, VI Additional Sessions Judge, Agra in Sessions Trial No. 82 of 1979, State v. Om Prakash. By this judgment the learned trial Court had convicted the appellants Om Prakash, Ram Prakash and Smt. Premwati to imprisonment for life under Section 302/ 34, I. P. C. As Govind Ram the fourth accused had died during the pendency of the trial, the case had already abated against him.