(1.) These appeals have been preferred by the appellants under Section 374(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, (hereinafter referred to as 'the CrPC') against the common judgment dated 08/08/2013 passed by the learned Fourth Additional Sessions Judge, Raipur (C.G.) in Sessions Trial No. 234/2011 whereby they have been convicted and sentenced as under :-
(2.) Since both these appeals arise out of a common judgment, therefore, they are being disposed of by this common judgment.
(3.) Briefly stated, the case of prosecution, is that, on 26/07/2011, from 9.30 A.M. to 5.30 P.M., some unknown person entered into the house of the deceased Smt. Meeta alias Sashmita Biswal in M.I.G., House No. 29 of Sector- 8 at Housing Board Colony, Saddu, Raipur and inflicted her with a knife on several parts of her body and thereby caused serious multiple injuries, as a result of which, she succumbed to injuries.