(1.) Inasmuch as all the five instant criminal appeals are directed against the judgment dtd. 29/9/2015 passed by the Sessions Court, Sivagangai in S.C. No. 72 of 2013, they are considered and decided by this common judgment.
(2.) The three murders, which are the subject matter of these appeals, appear to have occasioned on account of rivalry between members of two political parties, viz., Communists and AIADMK, as is manifest from the evidence on record.
(3.) The schema of the facts giving rise to the present five criminal appeals are as under: