CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 3187 of 1983 at Allahabad

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:83370-DB Court No. - 43 Case :- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. - 3187 of 1983 Appellant :- Ram Kumar Respondent :- State of U.P. Counsel for Appellant :- Kameshwar Singh,Krishna Kant Shukla Counsel for Respondent :- D.G.A. Hon'ble Vivek Kumar Birla,J. Hon'ble Jitendra Kumar Sinha,J. 1. Heard Sri Sanjay Kumar Srivastava holding brief of Sri Kameshwar Singh, learned counsel for the appellant and Sri O.P. Dwivedi, learned A.G.A. for the State respondents. 2. The present appeal has been filed by the appellants challenging the judgment and order dated 21.12.1983 passed by learned Sessions Judge, Rampur in Session Trial No. 192 of 1982 convicting the appellant under Section 302 IPC for life imprisonment. 3. The prosecution story in brief is that eight days before the incident a function to make offering to the village Goddess took place; the offerings were made by keeping articles in a Ghara, which was known in local parlance as “Pagar” in order to seek the assistance to save the village from epidemics; the Ghara was in the hand of brother of the informant, namely, Shiv Lal (deceased), which he was carrying in front of the Goddess, where after seeing Ram Kumar (appel