MANJIT SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) These two appeals by special leave are directed against the common judgment and order dated 11.03.2008, as passed by the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh in Criminal Appeal Nos. 373 DB of 2005 and 350 DB of 2005 with other connected matters whereby, the High Court has upheld the judgment and order dated 28/30.03.2005 by the Sessions Judge, Barnala in Sessions Case No. 21 of 2001, convicting and sentencing the accused-appellants for multiple offences, including those punishable under Sections 148, 302/149, 323, 324 and 326/149 of the Indian Penal Code ('IPC').

(2.) Put in brief, the relevant background aspects of the matter are as follows:

(3.) In the trial, the prosecution examined several witnesses, including the injured eye-witnesses Rajinder Pal Singh as PW-5 and Gurnam Singh as PW-6; the medical officer Dr. Subhash Singla, who had initially examined the injured persons and had prepared the injury reports, as PW-1; and Dr. Jasbir Singh, who had conducted post-mortem on the dead body of Dalip Singh, as PW-7.