JUDGMENT :

(B.R. Gavai, J.)

1. These criminal appeals challenge the judgement and final order dated 8th February 2019 passed by the Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court in Criminal Misc. Correction Application No. 2 of 2019 which had been preferred by the accused persons namely, Bhupendra Singh, Moti Lal and Prahlad.

2. The Correction Application purportedly sought a clarification of a previous judgment and final order passed by the Division Bench of the High Court on 21st May 2018¹[Hereinafter referred to as “First Judgment”], by which the High Court had dismissed the criminal appeals preferred by the accused persons and had affirmed the judgment passed by the Court of Additional Sessions Judge, Court No.4, Jaunpur in Sessions Trial No. 277 of 2012²[Hereinafter referred to as ‘trial court’] wherein the trial court had convicted the accused persons for the offences punishable under Sections 302 and 323 read with 34, and Sections 452, 504 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860³[‘IPC’ for short] and sentenced them to suffer imprisonment for life.

3. Subsequently however, the High Court by way of the impugned judgment and order allowed the Correction Application preferred by the ac