The Supreme Court has taken note of the pendency of appeals in the Allahabad High Court and directed the Registrar General of the court to apprise it of the normal process adopted there in listing criminal appeals, especially when the appellants are undergoing life term.
The apex court has also asked the Registrar General to file response indicating how many Benches are normally available to take up pending appeals and whether there is any special mechanism for listing of appeals where a person has been convicted for jail term of 10 years or less.
While hearing a plea, a Bench headed by Justice U.U. Lalit noted that one of the petitioners before it has completed three-and-a-half-year of actual imprisonment out of the seven years sentence, while another petitioner has undergone over eight-and-a-half-year out of the 10 years sentence and their appeals filed in 2019 are still pending in the High Court.
