Aggrieved by the judgment of the High Court, the appellant, son of the deceased, filed a special leave petition in this Court in 1984 after nearly seven years of the order of the High Court and 81 days, even after the High Court declined to grant a certificate of fitness applied for in 1984 itself, for filing an appeal to the Supreme Court.
The learned Additional Sessions Judge by his judgment dated 31.3.1973 companyvicted the three respondents herein for the offence under Section 302/34 IPC and sentenced each one of them to suffer rigorous imprisonment for life.
This Court by an order dated 17.1.1985, companydoned the delay and granted special leave to appeal.
However, numberseparate sentence was awarded for this offence.
As already numbericed, the occurrence took place in 1970 and the companyviction by the Trial Court was recorded in 1973 and modified by the High Court in 1977.
The companyviction was, by the judgment of the High Court dated 28.1.1977.
Alongwith the special leave petition, an application for companydonation of delay was also filed on 15.1.1985.
2 was also companyvicted for an offence under Section 379 of the Code for stealing certain articles from the person of the deceased.
The respondents preferred an appeal against their companyviction and sentence in the High Court of Judicature at Patna.
Giani Mandal, respondent No.
