Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 1297 · Decided 7 March 2022
Yeruva Sayireddy v. The State of Andhra Pradesh & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 1297 · [2022] 1 S.C.R. 882
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 233/2016
- Decided
- 7 March 2022
- Bench
- VINEET SARAN, ANIRUDDHA BOSE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 394
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s. 394 - Abatement of appeals - Appeal against conviction and sentence of death or of imprisonment - Death of appellant/convict during the pendency of the appeal - Amicus curiae, if a near relative of deceased of appeal - Held: Counsel appearing as an Amicus Curiae, cannot be treated as a near relative of the deceased appellant/convict - On facts, application for continuance of the appeal having not been made within 30 days or even thereafter by any near relative, as per the provision
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