PARSA SINGH AND ORS. Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) PARSA Singh, Ram Singh and Shankar Singh have filed the present appeal against the judgment dated 13.11.1992 passed by the Additional Sessions Judge, Beawar whereby the learned Judge has convicted them for offence under Section 302/34 IPC and had sentenced them to life imprisonment, imposed a fine of Rs. 500/ - and directed them to further undergo a sentence of six months of rigorous imprisonment in default thereof. During the pendency of the present appeal, Parsa Singh has expired. Therefore, the appeal qua him abates. Hence the present appeal is being decided only qua Ram Singh and Shankar Singh.

(2.) BRIEFLY , the facts of the case are that on 20.10.1988 Afu W/o. Megh Singh lodged a written report (Ex. P.19) with the SHO, Police Station Masuda, District Ajmer. The written report (Ex. P.19) when translated into English, reads as under: - -

(3.) MR . Rajendra Singh Tanwar, the learned counsel for the appellants has raised the following contentions before this court: firstly, it is a case of blind murder that nobody has seen. Yet in order to convict the appellants, the witnesses have been concocted by the investigating agency. The concoction is apparent from the fact that Afu (P.W.7), the complainant, does not mention the name of a single eyewitness in the FIR. If they had been, indeed, present at the scene of the crime, the complainant would have certainly mentioned the name in the FIR.