Parasuram Patel And Another vs State Of Orissa on 14 January, 1994
15. The discussion would not be complete without noticing the orders in Parasuram Patel vs. State of Orissa, (1994) 4 SCC 664 and Madan Lal Kapoor vs. Rajiv Thapar, (2007) 7 SCC 623. In neither of these cases had the appellate court taken steps available to it to ensure the attendance of the appellant. Instead, it appears that the High Court concerned had adopted the obviously less tedious approach of dismissing the appeals only because neither the appellant nor his counsel were present when the case was called on for hearing. The Court did not ruminate upon the curial malpractice which has now become endemic viz., the filing of appeals by convicts with the obvious intent to frustrate and circumvent sentences passed by criminal courts.