Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:20931-DB Court No. - 43 Case :- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. - 65 of 1997 Appellant :- Suresh And Others Respondent :- State of U.P. Counsel for Appellant :- S.Trivedi,Dhananjay Pratap Singh Counsel for Respondent :- Govt. Advocate Hon'ble Vivek Kumar Birla,J. Hon'ble Dr. Yogendra Kumar Srivastava,J. 1. Present appeal has been preferred against the judgment and order dated 17.1.1997 passed by II Additional Sessions Judge, Aligarh in S.T. No.533 of 1994, convicting the appellants and sentencing them to undergo imprisonment for life under Section 302/34 of IPC and to further undergo rigorous imprisonment of three years under Section 201 of IPC. 2. The appeal stood abated in respect of appellant no.1-Suresh, son of Kanta, vide order of this Court dated 18.12.2019. 3. Insofar as appellant no.2-Smt. Bhagwan Devi is concerned, office has submitted a report dated 11.2.2025 based on the report dated 24.1.2025 sent by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Aligarh according to which, she died on 18.8.2022. The statement to this effect of Karan Veer, son of Suresh Chandra Verma, who is grandson of appellant no.2-Bhagwan Devi, has also been placed on record. Statement to this effect of Dinesh Kumar, son of Raghunandan Sharma, Village Pradhan has also been recorded. 4. Accordingly, the present appeal stands abated in respect of appellant no.2-Bhagwan Devi as well. Order Date :- 13.2.2025 RKK/- Digitally signed by :- RAJ KUMAR KANNAUJIA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad