SHAKIL AHMAD Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THERE are two appellants, namely, Shakil Ahmad and Raju who have preferred this appeal against the order of conviction and sentence of life imprisonment passed against them under S.302 read with S.34, IPC on 18-7-1981 by Sri J. M. Srivastava, the then III Additional Sessions Judge, Fatehpur in S. T. No. 311 of 1980. There was third accused, namely, Ajai Kumar alias Chemin who was tried with the appellants but was acquitted having been given the benefit of doubt.

(2.) WE have heard Sri R. B. Singh learned counsel for the appellant No. 1 Shakeel Ahmad and Sri I. M. Khan learned counsel representing the other appellant Raju. From the side of the State, Sri Shekhar Yadav learned A.G.A. has been heard.

(3.) THE news of the dead body of the deceased being lying in the Arhar field as aforesaid spread all around. While Rais Ahmad PW 2 was busy in lodging the report with the police, the other members of the family collected the bones and brought the same to the tall of one Kalloo where they hung it on a pole in a piece of cloth.