CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 866 of 1988 at Lucknow

Reserved on 11.11.2025 AFR Delivered on 06.01.2026 Neutral Citation No. - 2026:AHC- LKO:313-DB HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL APPEAL No. - 866 of 1988 Vishwa Nath Tewari and others …..Appellant(s) Versus State of U.P. …..Respondent(s) Counsel for Appellant(s) : S.k.shukla, Ashok Kumar Verma, Manju Gupta, Pradeep Kumar Tripathi, Ripu Daman Shahi Counsel for Respondent(s) : Govt.advocate, Court No. - 28 HON'BLE RAJIV GUPTA, J. HON'BLE PRAMOD KUMAR SRIVASTAVA, J. (Per Pramod Kumar Srivastava, J.) 1. Heard Shri R.D. Shahi, learned counsel for the appellant no. 3 Mangoo Lal & appellant no. 5 Maqbool, Ms. Manju Gupta, learned counsel for the appellant no. 2 Bhai Lal, and Shri H.P. Maurya, learned AGA for the State. 2. At the very outset, it was brought to our notice by the learned counsel for the appellants that appellant Nos. 1, Vishwa Nath Tewari, 4, Lallu, and 6, Jagatoo, have since died. Therefore, the appeal against them has already been abated vide order dated 17.02.2022. This appeal, therefore, survives and is being adjudicated only in respect of the three surviving appellants: appellant nos. 2 Bhai Lal, 3 Mangoo Lal, and 5 Maqbool. 3. The instant appeal ha