IN THE COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Special Leave to Appeal Application NO. 54 of 2006 (Old No. 30 of 2000) Central Bureau of Investigation ………………..Applicant Versus Chet Ram ……Respondent Dated: March 5, 2008 Sri Arvind Vashisth, learned standing counsel for the applicant/CBI HON. DHARAM VEER, j. The present leave to appeal application has been preferred by the applicant/CBI u/s 3778(3) of Code of Criminal procedure, 1973 (hereinafter to be referred as Cr.P.C.) with a prayer to grant leave to the applicant/CBI to file the appeal against the acquittal of the respondent in CBI Case No. 03 of 1995, CBI Vs. Chet Ram Passed by Special Judge, Anti- corruption, U.P. (East) Dehradun vide judgment and order dated 04.04.2000. On 28.11.2007, the fresh notice was issued to the respondent. In compliance of that order, District Judge, Moradabad along with his report dated 19.12.2007 has annexed the report of Assistant Nazir, District Court, Moradabad dated 15.12.2007 in which it has been stated that the respondent-Chet Ram has died. Besides it, the District Judge has also annexed the Death Certificate dated 5.11.2007, which is issued in respect of respondent-Chet Ram in which it has also been stated that the respondent-Chet Ram had died on 18.10.2007. In view of the fact that the sole respondent-Chet Ram had died on 18.10.2007, the special leave to appeal application preferred by the applicant/CBI stands abated. Consequently, the appeal also stands abated. (Dharam Veer, J.) Rajeev Dang