JUDGMENT

TEJAS KARIA, J

INTRODUCTION

1. This Letters Patent Appeal is filed assailing the judgment and order dated 06.08.2024 (“Impugned Judgment”) passed in Writ Petition being W.P.(C) 15038/2021 titled as ‘Smt. Mridula Devi v. Union of India & Ors.’ (“Writ Petition”) partly allowing the Writ Petition and order dated 22.11.2024 (“Modification Order”) rejecting the claim for modification of the Impugned Judgment passed in an Application being C.M. No. 67811/2024 (“Modification Application”).

FACTUAL MATRIX

2. The Appellant is the widow of Late Rama Nand Singh (“R. N. Singh”), who participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942. On 10.08.1942, a criminal case, being G.R. 572/1942 titled as Emperor v. Sheetal Prasad Singh & Ors. (“G.R. 572/1942”), was registered against R. N. Singh and his associates under the provisions of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 by the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Madhubani, Bihar (“SDM”).

3. After several unsuccessful attempts by the SDM to arrest R. N. Singh during the period from 1942 to 1944, the SDM, vide order dated 12.03.1945, issued a proclamation and attachment under Section 82 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (“CrPC”) against him. Thereafter, vid