(1.) Leave granted.
(2.) Appellants call in question legality of the judgment rendered by a Division Bench of the Madras High Court upholding the conviction of the appellants for the offence punishable under Sections 148 and 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (in short the 'IPC'), while setting aside conviction of four co-accused persons who had been convicted by the trial Court.
(3.) Prosecution version in a nutshell is as follows: