IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

2026 INSC 256 CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 443 OF 2012 THE STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH ….APPELLANT(S)

VERSUS RAM SWAROOP @ BARKAT …RESPONDENT(S)

O R D E R

1.

State is questioning the correctness of the Judgment of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad rendered in Criminal Appeal No.3739 of 2009 dated 04.03.2009, whereunder the appellant came to be acquitted who had been convicted by the Additional Sessions Judge, Fast Track Court No. - 1 in Sessions Trial No.209 of 2001 on 27.06.2006 for the offence punishable under Section 364 of IPC by reversing the said finding of the Trial Court.

2.

The gravamen of the prosecution case is: appellant had come to the house of the complainant Shri Puran on 25.11.1998 and took Dinesh son of the complainant from his home on the pretext of watching a movie and he never returned. It was stated that his dead body was found the next Signature Not Verified NEHA GUPTA Date: 2026.03.19 Reason:

father of the deceased, an FIR came to be registered for the offence punishable under Section 302 of IPC against the appellant and three others. On the basis of chargesheet material and after accused pleaded not guilty the