DARSHAN SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is an appeal on grant of special leave against the judgment of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana in Criminal Appeal No. 437/86 and Reference No. 4/86 wherein the learned Judges of the High Court maintained the conviction and sentence passed against the appellants by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Faridkot. The conviction and sentences passed against that appellants are : <FRM>JUDGEMENT_618_1_1988Html1.htm</FRM>

(2.) ACCUSED Pala Singh and Roop Singh are also convicted as mentioned above but they have not come up before this Court. This appeal has been filed by Darshan Singh and Buggar Singh alias Bagga Singh, therefore, we are concerned with their cases only.

(3.) IT is alleged by the prosecution that the two brothers had inherited some land from their father and there were disputes about it. Apparently, Pala Singh and Darshan Singh by eradicating the family of his brother Mukand Singh removed one of the successors claiming half share in the property. IT was also alleged that as Mukand Singh had no male issue and Harbans Kaur was of marriageable age, it appears from evidence that negotiations for marriage were in the offing, Pala Singh apprehended the entrance of some stranger in the family as son-in-law of Mukand Singh to succeed to the property falling in the share of Mukand Singh.