Anup Dubey, who was accused of murdering his associate Devendra Tomar in 2013, was employed as a senior assistant in the department and posted in the Mahoba division in 2018.
Allowing a criminal appeal filed by an ex-soldier- Murari, a division bench comprising justices Siddhartha Varma and Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra set aside the judgment dated May 3, 1983 passed by the sessions judge, Badaun by which the appellant Murari was convicted under Section 302 (murder) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and was sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life.
A bench headed by Justice Vikram Nath issued notice on Bhatt’s petition and tagged it with two similar appeals arising out of the same judgment passed by the Gujarat high court on January 9 this year
Two brothers in Surajpur were sentenced to life for murdering their cousin Raju in 2021 over his relationship with their sister. They were convicted based on testimonies and medical evidence.