RAGHUNATH SOREN @ KURORAM Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The instant appeal is directed against the Judgment and Order of conviction passed in Sessions Trial being No.8.8.2007 arising out of Sessions Case No.146 of 2007 passed by the Learned Additional Sessions Judge, Fast Track Court, Bolpur, Birbhum convicting the appellants under Sections 302/448/342/323 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code sentenced to suffer :

(2.) Put in a short frame, the prosecution case runs thus:- On 14.01.2007 at about 10.05 p.m. one Sukol Soren lodged a written complaint to the Officer-in-charge, Bolpur Police Station stating that on that fateful day at about 8.30 p.m. accused Raghunath Soren along with other accused persons being armed with lathi, cycle chain and sharp cutting weapons entered the house of Baburam Soren and they desperately attacked and assaulted Baburam Soren, his son Sanatan Soren and his wife Hiramoni Soren. The accused persons dragged Sanatan Soren, Baburam Soren and Hiramoni Soren by assaulting them at a vacant land in front of the house of Paresh Soren.

(3.) In order to prove its case prosecution has examined as many as 18 witnesses.