Supreme CourtDivision Bench

State of U.P. vs Bal Mukund and Others

Supreme Court Of India · Decided on 13 March 2000 · Citation: (2000) 3 ACR 2088 : (2000) 8 JT 119

HON’BLE JUDGES
U. C. Banerjee, J · G. B. Pattanaik, J
RESULT
Dismissed
CASE NUMBER
Petition (s) for Special Leave to Appeal (Criminal) No. 708 of 2000
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3 paragraphs · 184 words

G.B. Pattanaik and U.C. Banerjee, JJ.—Heard.

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The SLP is dismissed.

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The State of Uttar Pradesh has come up in appeal against the judgment of the Allahabad High Court refusing leave to file appeal in a matter where the Sessions Judge has recorded an order of acquittal on the ground that while refusing leave, the High Court has not given any reason. Undoubtedly, there is a judgment of this Court which says that the High Court while refusing leave shall indicate reason, but that by itself ought not to have been the basis for filing petition for leave to appeal to this Court without examining the merits of the judgment of acquittal. In the case in hand, the two eye-witnesses have been believed by the learned Sessions Judge giving many reasons and each one of them must be held to be a good and germane reason for which the Sessions Judge rightly disbelieved their testimony. We fail to understand how the State of Uttar Pradesh is filing SLP against such decision without applying its mind to the merits of the judgment in question.