Saumitra Shukla v. State of Chhattisgarh
Case brief
What is this about?
High Court of Chhattisgarh at Bilaspur; ACQA No. 133 of 2022; decided 13/04/2026 by Sanjay S. Agrawal, J. (single bench). Acquittal appeal by Saumitra Shukla and five others against State of Chhattisgarh and nine private respondents dismissed as not pressed; dismissal in view of Division Bench order dated 07/10/2025 in Acquittal Appeal No.57/2022 (Vinod Kumar Sarthi and others) and connected Criminal Appeal No.235/2022 (Anurag Awasthi), Criminal Appeal No.388/2022 (Narendra Tripathi and others) and Criminal Appeal No.566/2022 (Saumitra Shukla and others). No merits adjudication and no ratio on the underlying offence; useful only to show disposal as not pressed. Appellants' counsel: Ashutosh Trivedi; State represented by Deepak Kumar Singh, P.L.
What did the court decide?
The appeal is dismissed as not pressed in view of the judgment passed by the Division Bench of this Court.