MOTIRAM Vs. STATE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE present two Criminal Appeals arise out of the judgment and order of conviction and sentence passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, First Court, Midnapore dated 6 -8 -1989 in Sessions Trial case No. 1 of March, 1989.

(2.) BY the impugned judgment and order of conviction, the learned Additional Sessions Judge has found all the appellants, namely, Motiram and Shyamapada Mondal (Criminal Appeal No. 441 of 1989) and Narahari Das alias Narendra Das (Criminal Appeal No. 108 of 1990) guilty of having committed an offence under section 395 of the Indian Penal Code and under section 9B of the Indian Explosives Act.

(3.) THE learned Trial Judge has convicted and sentenced each of them to suffer rigorous imprisonment for ten years under section 395 of the Indian Penal Code but has not passed any separate sentence for their offence under Section 9B of the Indian Explosives Act. Both the appeals have been heard together and will be governed by this judgment.