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AFR

Court No. - 45

Case :- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. - 824 of 2007

Appellant :- Shivnath Awasthi

Respondent :- State of U.P.

Counsel for Appellant :- P.C. Sharma, Himanshu Upadhyay, Manish

Jaiswal, P.S. Sharma, V.K.Dixit

Counsel for Respondent :- Govt. Advocate

Hon'ble Manoj Misra,J.

Hon'ble Sameer Jain,J.

1.

We have heard Sri Manish Jaiswal, learned counsel, appointed

by the High Court Legal Services to represent the appellant who is in

jail; Sri J.K. Upadhyay and Sri H.M.B. Sinha, learned AGA for the

State and have perused the record.

2.

This appeal has been filed against the judgement and order dated

10.1.2007 passed by Additional Session Judge, Court No. 3,

Shahjanpur in Sessions Trial No. 971 of 2005, connected with

Sessions Trial No. 972 of 2005, thereby convicting the appellant under

Sections 302 and 307 IPC (in Sessions Trial No. 971 of 2005 arising

out of case crime No. 169 of 2005, Police Station-Ram Chandra

Mission, Shahjahanpur) and under Section 27 of Arms Act ( in

connected Sessions Trial No. 972 of 2005 arising out of case crime

No. 170 of 2005, Police Station-Ram Chandra Mission, Shahjahanpur)

and sentencing him to imprisonment for life unde