Ravindra Pratap Shahi vs State of U. P.

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2025 Supreme(SC) 1264

SANJAY KAROL, PRASHANT KUMAR MISHRA
Ravindra Pratap Shahi – Appellant
Versus
State of U. P. – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
For the Appellant(s) : Mr. S. Nagamuthu, Sr. Adv. Mr. Devesh Mohan, Adv. Mr. Kush Chaturvedi, AOR Ms. Prerna Priyadarshini, Adv. Mr. Syed Faraz Alam, Adv. Mr. Atharva Gaur, Adv. Mr. Aayushman Aggarwal, Adv. Ms. Ayesha Choudhary, Adv.
For the Respondent(s): Ms. Preetika Dwivedi, AOR

JUDGMENT

PRASHANT KUMAR MISHRA, J.

1. Leave granted.

2. The present Appeals have been preferred against the impugned interim orders dated 28.08.2024 and 09.01.2023 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad in Criminal Appeal No.939 of 2008 by which the said criminal appeal preferred by respondent no.2 was not taken up for hearing.

3. By order dated 15.04.2025, this Court requested the High Court to decide the appeal expeditiously preferably within a period of three months. However, considering that the criminal appeal pending before the High Court was earlier reserved for orders on 24.12.2021, but the judgment was not delivered necessitating orders from the Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad to assign the matter to a different Bench, we heard the learned counsel for the parties for issuance of necessary directions in this regard.

4. According to the appellant/de-facto complainant, the appeal preferred by respondent no.2 is pending since 2008 wherein he moved the High Court on nine different occasions for early listing, hearing and disposal of the appeal. However, no final verdict has been given by the High Court. Eventually, arguments were heard by the

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