AFR Judgment Reserved On: 13.02.2026 Judgment Delivered On:02.04.2026 HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL APPEAL No. - 205 of 1985 Rameshwar Prasad Gupta …..Appellant Versus State of U.P.

…..Respondent(s)

Counsel for Appellant(s) : G.P.Dixit, Kameshwar Singh Counsel for Respondent(s) : A.G.A.

Court No. - 83 HON'BLE SANJIV KUMAR, J.

1. This criminal appeal, under Section 374 (2) Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (in short ‘Cr.P.C.’), has been preferred by appellant, Rameshwar Prasad Gupta, against judgment and order dated 31.01.1985 passed by Mr. Badri Niwas, Ist Additional Sessions Judge, Ballia, in Sessions Trial No. 124 of 1983 (State Vs. Lachia Devi and others), arising out of Case Crime No. 259 of 1982, under Sections 306 IPC, Police Station Sukhpura, District Ballia.

2. By the impugned judgment and order, appellant-Rameshwar Prasad Gupta, was convicted and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for five years and awarded a fine of Rs.1000/- for offence punishable under Section 306 IPC, with default stipulation.

3. Brief facts of the prosecution case are that the first informant Paras Nath Gupta, son of Late Kedarnath Gupta, resident of Dildarnagar, Police Station Dilda