SPECIAL APPEAL No. 275 of 2025 at Lucknow

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW SPECIAL APPEAL No. - 275 of 2025 Upendra Pratap Singh .....Appellant(s) Versus State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Home Deptt. Lko. And 4 Others .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Appellant(s) : Janardan Singh, Sanjay Kumar Sharma Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C. Court No. - 1 HON'BLE RAJAN ROY, J. HON'BLE RAJEEV BHARTI, J. 1. Heard. Supplementary affidavit filed today by the appellant is taken on record. 2. This is an appeal challenging the judgement and order dated 20.11.2024 passed in Writ-A No. 3368 of 2024 (Upendra Pratap Singh vs. State of U.P. and others). 3. The facts of the case in brief are that the appellant-petitioner was re- engaged as a Home Guard in terms of an enactment namely, the U.P. Home Guards Act, 1963 sometimes in the year 2004. In 2006, an FIR was lodged against him, wherein a charge-sheet was filed. Ultimately, in the said criminal case, he was convicted of the offence punishable under Section 307 IPC. This fact is not in dispute. It is also not in dispute that the appellant-petitioner has challenged this conviction, wherein his sentence has been suspended i.e., he has been enlarged on bail, but his conviction h