MP HC Dismisses Appeal of Rape Convict Filed 20 years Back [Read Judgment]

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has held the law does not enjoin that the court shall adjourn the case if both the appellant and his lawyer are absent.With this observation the court has decided the 20-year-old criminal appeal filed by a person convicted in a rape case in absence of his lawyer on the date of hearing.While deciding the appeal, Justice Sushil Kumar Palo said “this criminal...