CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1684 of 1987 at Allahabad

Reserved on 03.02.2026 Delivered on 25.02.2026 HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL APPEAL No. - 1684 of 1987 Sukhlal And Others .....Appellant(s) Versus State of U.P. .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Appellant(s) : Pranvesh, Chandra Kant Bharadwaj, Pradeep Pandey, Raghuvansh Misra, Yagyadhar Tripathi Counsel for Respondent(s) : In Chamber HON'BLE SIDDHARTH, J. HON'BLE JAI KRISHNA UPADHYAY, J. (Delivered by Hon’ble Siddharth, J.) 1. Heard Mr. Raghuvansh Misra, Mr. Ashwini Tripathi and Mr. Pranvesh, Amicus Curiae, appointed in this case because of earlier absence of counsel for appellants; Mr. Sushil Kumar Pandey, learned AGA-I for State-respondent; perused the record of the trial Court and judgment and order passed by the trial Court. 2. This criminal appeal has been preferred against the judgment and order dated 29.6.1987 passed by Ist Additional Sessions Judge, Bareilly, in Sessions Trial No. 293 of 1985, convicting and sentencing the appellants to undergo for life imprisonment under Section 302/34 I.P.C. 3. The prosecution case, in brief, is that in the intervening night of 20/21.7.84 complainant, Pooran Lal, P.W.1, resident of village Sarawat Gauntia, a hamlet of villag