CRIMINAL APPEAL U/S 413 BNSS DEFECTIVE No. 6 of 2026 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL APPEAL U/S 413 BNSS DEFECTIVE No. - 6 of 2026 Ratan Khanna .....Appellant(s) Versus State Of U.P. And 4 Others .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Appellant(s) : Mahendra Pratap Singh Counsel for Respondent(s) : G.A. Court No. - 43 HON'BLE SALIL KUMAR RAI, J. HON'BLE DIVESH CHANDRA SAMANT, J. The present criminal appeal has been filed under Section 413 of B.N.S.S., 2023 against the judgment and orders dated 16.05.2023 and 17.05.2023 passed by the Additional Sessions Judge, Court No. 17, Kanpur Nagar in Sessions Trial No. 41 of 2017 (State vs. Vivek Tripathi and others), arising out of Case Crime No. 558 of 2016, under Sections 307, 120-B, 147, 148, 149 IPC, Police Station Chakeri, District Kanpur Nagar, by which the opposite party nos. 2, 3 and 4 have been acquitted for the offences under Sections 307, 120-B, 147, 148, 149 IPC and opposite party no. 5 has been acquitted for the offences under Sections 120-B, 147, 148, 149 IPC and has been sentenced for the offence under Section 307 IPC and has been awarded the sentence of 8 years simple imprisonment instead of life imprisonment. The appeal is beyond time by 878 days (approximately 2 and a h