HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL APPEAL No. - 5563 of 2025 Court No. - 86 HON'BLE SHEKHAR KUMAR YADAV, J. 1.Heard learned counsel for the appellant and learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the material available on record. 2. This criminal appeal under Section 14-A (1) Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act (in short 'the SC/ST Act') has been preferred by the appellant with the prayer to set-aside the the judgment and order dated 24.4.2025 rejecting the discharge application of the appellant under Section 227 Cr.P.C. in Case Crime no. 468 of 2012, S.S.T. No. 53 of 2017, (State Vs. Pankaj Sachan) under Section 364 IPC and section 3(2) (5) of SC/ST Act, P.S. Ghatampur, District Kanpur Dehat, passed by Additional District and Session Judge, Court no. 2/Special Judge, (SC/ST Act), Kanpur Dehat. 3. I have gone through the impugned order. Impugned order itself reflects that charges against the accused have already been framed and the grounds taken for discharge cannot be considered at this stage as truthfulness, sufficiency and acceptability of the evidence produced by the accused can be adjudged during trial. The impugned order passed by the court below is well in conformity in law and does not suffer from error of illegality, irregularity and warrant any interference by this Court. 4. Accordingly, this criminal appeal is dismissed. October 17, 2025 A. Versus Counsel for Appellant(s) : Abhinav Trivedi, Adarsh Kumar Counsel for Respondent(s) : G.A. (Shekhar Kumar Yadav,J.) Pankaj Sachan .....Appellant(s) State of U.P. and Another .....Respondent(s) Digitally signed by :- AFAQ AHMAD High Court of Judicature at Allahabad