RAM PRASAD Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is a third criminal misc. petition u/s. 482 Cr. P. C. and has been filed under the following circumstances:-

(2.) S. B. Cr. Appeal No. 543/1983 was heard by Hon'ble Mr. Justice M. A. A. Khan as he then was on 24. 7. 1997. None was present on behalf of appellants. Learned Public Prosecutor was heard. Judgment was pronounced on 17. 10. 1997 and the conviction of the appellant was altered from 364 to 365 IPC but since he and his brother Ram Chandra were granted anticipatory bail and had not remained in custody, the sentence awarded to them by the learned Sessions Judge was maintained while other persons was reduced to the period already undergone. The order-sheets of the appeal show that nobody put appearance on behalf of accused petitioner when the case was listed for hearing.

(3.) CONSEQUENTLY, there is no force in this petition and it is hereby dismissed. .