CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 3275 of 2025 at Lucknow

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL APPEAL No. - 3275 of 2025 Jagpal Maurya @ Jagpal Kushwaha .....Appellant(s) Versus State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Of Home Lko. And Another .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Appellant(s) : Ram Naresh Singh Chauhan Counsel for Respondent(s) : G.A., Ankit Kumar Rao, Tasleem Khan, Ujjwal Kirti Bisen Court No. - 28 HON'BLE PRAMOD KUMAR SRIVASTAVA, J. Rejoinder affidavit filed today by learned counsel for the appellant is taken on record. Vide order dated 10.10.2025, the notice was issued to the complainant and as per office report the same has been served personally upon the complainant. Today when the case is taken up, none is present on behalf of the complainant/opposite party no. 2, therefore, this Court has no option but to proceed in the matter to decide the instant appeal. Heard learned counsel for the appellant and learned Additional Government Advocate for the State as well as perused the record. The present criminal appeal under Section 14-A (2) Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act has been preferred against the impugned order dated 18.08.2025 passed by learned Special Judge, SC/ST Act,