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The Supreme Court connected Wednesday (February 11, 2026) agreed to perceive the Uttar Pradesh government's plea challenging the Allahabad High Court order, which acceptable speech the death punishment awarded to 4 accused and beingness imprisonment to different successful the 2007 Rampur CRPF campy panic onslaught case.
Eight CRPF unit had died and 5 were injured successful the onslaught connected the their campy astatine Rampur connected the nighttime of December 31, 2007.
A seat of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta issued announcement to the accused persons connected the plea filed by the State and posted the substance for proceeding aft 4 weeks.
Advocate M.S. Khan appeared for the 5 accused.
The State has challenged the High Court's October 29 past twelvemonth verdict.
The High Court had acceptable speech a proceedings tribunal bid that awarded superior punishment to 4 persons and beingness imprisonment to different successful the case.
It had acquitted Mohd Sharif, Sabauddin, Imran Shahjad, Mohd Farooq and Jang Bahadur Khan connected execution and different superior charges, saying the prosecution "miserably failed to beryllium the lawsuit against the accused for the main offence beyond tenable doubt".
The precocious court, however, recovered the five, including Jang Bahadur Khan who was sentenced to beingness imprisonment, blameworthy nether Section 25 (1-A) of the Arms Act and sentenced them to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment.
