(Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Dinesh Maheshwari and Hrishikesh Roy, JJ.)
Petition for Special Leave to Appeal (Crl.) No. 6174/2020
Pravat Chandra Mohanty _____________________________ Petitioner;
v.
State of Odisha ___________________________________ Respondent.
(For Admission and I.R. and IA No. 125459/2020-Exemption From Filing C/C of the Impugned Judgment and IA No. 125460/2020-Exemption From Filing O.T.)
SLP (Crl.) No. 6224/2020
(For Admission and I.R. and Applications For Exemption From Filing C/C of the Impugned Judgment and Exemption From Filing O.T.)
Petition for Special Leave to Appeal (Crl.) No. 6174/2020; CRLA No. 207/1988; IA No. 125459/2020; IA No. 125460/2020; and SLP (Crl.) No. 6224/2020, decided on December 17, 2020
The Order of the court was delivered by
Order
1. Learned senior counsel for the petitioners confines his submissions to the conviction under Section 224 of the IPC on the ground that what was used was a baton. He volunteers that the petitioners are willing to compensate the family of the deceased and that they are now in their middle 70s. On a Court query learned counsel offers and agrees to deposit Rs. 3.5 lakhs each for the two petitioners each totaling to Rs. 7 lakhs as compensation in this Court within three weeks so that the total compensation admissible to the family would be 10 lakhs taking into consideration Rs. 3 lakhs awarded to the legal representatives of the deceased which the State Government would have paid.
2. Issue notice on the SLP as well as on the interim bail returnable in the first miscellaneous week post the winter recess.
3. We consider appropriate to implead the legal representatives of the deceased as respondents.
4. Amended memo of parties be filed.
5. Notice be also issued to the said respondents.
6. Dasti in addition through the standing counsel for the State and to the legal heirs of the deceased in person.
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