(1.) This appeal was preferred by appellants Kuku Singh and Mithu Singh, assailing the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 05.03.2004 recorded by learned Additional Sessions Judge, Mansa, in case bearing First Information Report No.79 dated 03.09.2001 registered at Police Station Sadar Mansa vide which they (appellants) were convicted for commission of offence under Sec. 307 read with Sec. 34 of the Indian Penal Code (for short "I.P.C.") and under Sec. 27 and 30 of the Arms Act and were sentenced as under:-
(2.) The relevant facts gathered from the record are as under:-
(3.) The complainant further stated that hearing about the occurrence, his brother Mithu Singh and Major Singh son of Kartar Singh, resident of Khokhar Khurd reached the spot. Seeing them, all the three assailants, taking their respective weapons, fled away on the scooter towards Khokhar Kalan.