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The Supreme Court has dismissed the Special Leave Petition of Bhim Tank murder case convict Shiv Lal alias Sholi arising out of impugned judgement and order passed by the High Court of Punjab and Haryana on May 15.
The bench of Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Bela M. Trivedi upon hearing the counsel, made the following order: We are not inclined to interfere with the impugned judgement and hence, the special leave petition is dismissed.
(SUBHEAD)The bench said in the order, “We are informed that the appeal preferred by the petitioner Shiv Lal alias Sholi before the High Court challenging the order of conviction and sentence is stated to be listed for hearing in the month of July. We hope and trust that the learned counsel for the parties would appear and argue the appeals. In case, the appeal is not taken up for hearing due to reasons not attributable to the petitioner-Shiv Lal and co-accused, convicts, it will be open to the petitioner-Sholi to file a fresh application for bail. If any such application is filed, the same would be considered and decided in accordance with law.”
The Punjab and Haryana High Court had on May 15 dismissed the petition for suspension of the remaining sentence, filed by Sholi, who was serving life imprisonment for alleged conspiracy in the Bhim Tank murder case that took place in December 2015.
The learned counsels for Doda had said that he had been in jail for 6 years 6 months and 6 days in this case. He was not present in Abohar on the day the murder took place and his polygraph test had also been termed negative. As of now it is not certain that when the petition filed against the sentence of life imprisonment will be disposed of, his remaining sentence should be kept in suspension. Opposing the prayer, Additional Advocate General Dhruv Dayal and advocate for the complainant in the case SPS Tinna argued that 7 cases were pending in the courts in Fazilka and Abohar against Shiv Lal Doda. He does not deserve the concession of suspension of his remaining sentence.
