ABDUL SALAM Vs. STATE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Sri Vichitra Kumar Chandel, holding brief of Sri Veer Singh, learned counsel for the appellant has stated at the bar that despite repeated letters sent by the office of Sri Veer Singh to the appellant, he has failed to respond. He has further stated that Sri Veer Singh has no instructions to argue this appeal.

(2.) Record shows that this appeal is of the year 1990 and the appellant is on bail.

(3.) Faced with the aforesaid contingency, the question which arises before us is that whether we are bound to adjourn the matter in the absence of both the appellant or his counsel. Under identical circumstances, the Apex Court after a comprehensive analysis of previous decisions on the issue has distilled the legal position into six propositions in paragraph 19 of its judgement delivered in the case of K.S. Panduranga v. State of Karnataka, 2013 3 SCC 721 :