KALYAN Vs. STATE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is an appeal by five persons namely Kalyan, Ananda, Shankriya, Ram Kishen and Kanwara against the judgment of the Sessions Judge, Bundi dated the 3rd January, 1950. The first three appellants Kalyan, Ananda and Shankriya have been convicted under sec. 302 read with sec. 149 of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced to transportation for life. They have also been convicted under secs. 147 and 451 of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment on each count. The sentences have however been ordered to run concurrently. The remaining two appellants Ram Kishen and Kanwara have been convicted under sec. 144 of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment each.

(2.) THE occurrence relating to this case took place on the afternoon of the 10th August, 1948 in the District Bundi at Dablana and at the kanjar settlement which is two miles north of that village, kanjar settlement is the place where the kanjars who were treated as members of criminal tribes were settled.