14 August 2007 :

the Supreme Court in India severely castigated the Allahabad High Court for the "casual way" in which it acquitted three people (one sentenced to death and two to life imprisonment) convicted for double murder by the Hamirpur sessions court in Uttar Pradesh. A bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and D.K. Jain said: "The high court did not even bother to analyse the evidence or to refer to any findings of the trial court." The Hamirpur court sentenced Govind Das to death for the murder of Loknath and Naval Kishore. However the high court acquitted all three on the simple fact that the trial court had originally acquitted one of their co-accused. The Supreme Court said “the acquittal of one co-accused cannot be a ground for an acquittal of all,” and asked the high court to dispose of the matter within six months as it had taken "very long" in doing so the first time.