(1.) E. G. Shah, J. The appellants, four in number, were charged for having committed offences, punishable under Sections 323, 325 and 302, I. P. C. , each read with Section 34, J. P. C. The learned III Additional Sessions Judge, Banda, in Sessions trial No. 133 of 1979, held them quilt of the offences for which they were charged. He sentenced each one of them to imprisonment for life for an offence under Section 302/34,i. P. C. He, however, did not inflict any separate punishment upon the appellants for the offences under Section 323/34 and 325/34, I. P. C.
(2.) THE facts of the prosecution case may briefly be stated as follow.
(3.) THE Investigating Officer, Mr. Dikshit completed the investigation and submitted the charge-sheet against the appellants. In due course, they were committed to the Court of Sessions. THE learned IIi Additional Judge, Bauda on an appreciation of evidence led before him, found the prosecution case to be acceptable and passed the impugned order of conviction and sentence.