(Sanjay Kishan Kaul and K.M. Joseph, JJ.)
Nagaraja _________________________________________ Appellant;
v.
State of Karnataka ________________________________ Respondent.
Criminal Appeal No(s). 66/2012, decided on October 16, 2019
The Order of the court was delivered by
Order
1. Arguments concluded.
2. Judgment reserved.
3. We, however, note that the incident pertains to the year 1996 and there were 8 accused. Out of the 8 accused, only 5 were apprehended. Three of them were enlarged on bail and then absconded. It appears that these accused have still not been apprehended and put to trial. We find the aforesaid completely unacceptable that for these many years these accused could not be apprehended, if proper measures were taken. It is not a case of one or two accused disappearing from the scene but six accused absconding.
4. We thus, call upon the respondent-State to file an affidavit under the signatures of Superintendent of Police of the District setting out as to what steps have been taken to apprehend these accused and as to what endeavours are being made now.
5. The affidavit be filed within four weeks.
6. A copy of the order dasti be sent to the learned counsel for the State.
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