RAM LAKHAN AND OTHERS Vs. STATE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This is an appeal against the judgment and order passed by Sri P.N. Goel, Addl. Sessions Judge, Etawah convicting Ram Lakhan, Babu Ram and Raja Ram Appellants under two counts of Sec. 395 IPC and sentencing each of them to eight years' RI under each count.

(2.) The facts of the case giving rise to this appeal are as follows:

(3.) A report of the occurrence was lodged by Kali Charan at police station Bakewar next day at 6.20 a.m. In this report, four dacoits were named. On the basis of this report, the police registered a case Under Sec. 395 read with Sec. 397 IPC against the four named persons and ten or eleven unknown dacoits.