PANKAJ ALIAS BOBBY Vs. STATE OF U.P.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) These two criminal appeals assail the judgment / order dated 6.10.2009 by Addl. Sessions Judge, Agra in S.T. No.419 of 2006, (Case Crime no. 105 of 2006, P.S. Tajganj, Agra), convicting / sentencing the appellant- Pankaj Sharma @ Bobby under Section 302 / 148 IPC to life and other appellants under Section 302 /148 / 149 IPC with life and fine of Rs. 20,000/- each, a default sentence of 2 years each and under Section 148 IPC to 6 months sentence each.

(2.) The trial court after analysing the evidence was of the view that it was a case of cold blooded murder, plea of suicide is devoid of merit, while acquitting accused Smt. Shivrani and Vijay Sharma as they were not close relatives of the other co-accused and had no occasion to be present at the time of occurrence, while Vijay Sharma was nursing a fracture, convicted the appellants as above.

(3.) We have heard Sri B.P. Singh Dhakray, Sri Jitendra Kumar Shishodia and Sri Aklank Kumar Jain, learned counsel for the appellants, Sri Satish Trivedi, learned Senior Advocate assisted by Shri Shree Prakash Giri, S/Sri Sujan Singh, R.P. Dwivedi and Sheshadri Trivedi for the informant and Sri A.N. Mulla, the learned A.G.A, for the State.