CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2388 of 1984 at Allahabad

Reserved on 30.7.2025 Delivered on 19.9.2025 HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL APPEAL No. - 2388 of 1984 Badri Prasad And Others .....Appellant(s) Versus State of U.P. .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Appellant(s) : Mangla Prasad Rai(Senior Adv.), O.P. Singh Counsel for Respondent(s) : D.G.A. Court No. - 44 HON'BLE SAUMITRA DAYAL SINGH, J. HON'BLE ANIL KUMAR-X, J. (Per Anil Kumar-X,J.) 1. Heard Shri Mangla Prasad Rai, learned Senior Advocate assisted by Shri Pavan Kumar Pandey, learned counsel for the appellants and Ms. Archana Singh, learned A.G.A.-I for the State. 2. Appellants have preferred this criminal appeal against the judgment and order dated 29.8.1984 passed by Sessions Judge, NMA, Kanpur in Sessions Trial No. 384 of 1981 wherein appellant no. 1, Badri Prasad has been convicted under Section 302 IPC and sentenced to undergo life imprisonment and appellant no. 3, Kishan has been convicted under Section 302 IPC read with Section 34 IPC and sentenced to undergo life imprisonment. 3. The appeal qua appellant no. 2 has been declared abated vide order dated 09.7.2025. 4. Brief facts of this case is that Mahadeo (PW-1 at the trial) s/o Misri Lal r/o Village Koriya, Di