Puran vs. The State Of Uttar Pradesh

S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

Petition for Special Leave to Appeal (Crl.) No.5224/2021

(Arising out of impugned final judgment and order dated 23032015 in CRLA No. 7960/2009 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad)

KALI CHARAN @ KARUWA @ RANJESH Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH Respondent(s)

IA No. 79569/2021 EXEMPTION FROM FILING C/C OF THE IMPUGNED JUDGMENT & IA No. 79570/2021 EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.)

WITH

SLP(Crl) No. 7985/2021 (II)

Date : 26112021 These matters were called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURYA KANT HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE HIMA KOHLI

For Petitioner(s)

Mr. Nagendra Singh, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Gupta, Adv. Mr. Ashish Pandey, Adv. Dr. Amardeep Gaur, Adv. For M/s.V. Maheshwari & Co., AOR Mr. Nagendra Singh, Adv. Mr. Gobind Kumar, Adv. Mr. Navneet Kumar, Adv. Mr. Ronak Karanpuria, AOR For Respondent(s) Ms. Mayuri Raghuvanshi, Adv. Mr. Sarvesh Singh Baghel, AOR Ms. Garima Prasad, AAG, UP

Mr. Vishnu Shankar Jain, AOR

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R

The Court is convened through Video Conferencing.

Exemptions are allowed.

Heard learned counsel appearing for the petitioners, learned Additional Advocate General appearing for the State of Uttar Pradesh and carefully perused the record, including the counter affidavits filed by the State.

Taking into consideration the fact that the petitioner – Mr. Kali Charan @ Karuwa @ Ranjesh in Special Leave Petition(Crl.) No.5224/2021 and Petitioner – Puran in Special Leave Petition (Crl.) No.7985/2021 are reported to have been in jail for over 14 years and 9 months without remission and 11 years and 10 months without remission respectively, and their Criminal Appeals of the years 2009 and 2010, pending adjudication before the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, are not likely to be taken up for final disposal very soon, which are facts that cannot be controverted by the learned Additional Advocate General appearing for the State of U.P, we are inclined to grant bail to them.

The petitioners are, therefore, directed to be released on bail, subject to such terms and conditions which the concerned Trial Court shall deem fit and appropriate to impose upon them.

The Special Leave Petitions are disposed of in the aforestated terms.

(VISHAL ANAND) (R.S. NARAYANAN) ASTT. REGISTRARcumPS COURT MASTER (NSH)