DADHICH SINGH Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) VIRENDRA Saran, J. This expedited appeal has come up before us. The appel lant in this case has already remained in jail ever since 13-9-1986, that is about 13years.

(2.) APPLICANT Dadhich Singh has preferred this appeal against the judgment and order dated 30-4-1988 of Sri R. L. Ojha, Special/additional Sessions Judge, Hardoi convicting and sentencing the ap pellant under Section 302 1pc, to Im prisonment for Life and under Section 201 IPC to 2 years' R. I. The sentences were ordered to run concurrently. The order was passed in Sessions Trial No. 499 of 1986.

(3.) ON 13-9-1986 PW-8 S. I. Ram Singh Chaudhary, who was deputed to search for the appellant, arrested the appellant with the help of other witnesses at about 3 p. m. as the appellant as he was seen coming from the direction of Sonikpur and proceeding towards Jalgaon. ON being asked, the appellant disclosed his name as Dadhich Singh. The personal search of the appellant yielded nothing incriminating. However, the appellant confessed his guilt to the S. I. Ram Singh Chaudhary and he pointed out the place in his own field from where he dug- out a sword concealed a few inches underneath the earth. The arresting of ficer prepared a memo, which is Ext. Ka -2.