SABODI HANSDA Vs. STATE OF BIHAR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE appellants, four in number, were arrayed as A -l, A -2, A -4 and A -3 respectively along with Surendra Murmu, who was arrayed as A -5, before the 3rd Additional Sessions Judge, Dumka. They were tried for the charge under Section 302/34 of the Indian Penal Code, on the allegation that in furtherance of the common intention of each other, they caused the death of Surajmuni Baskey @ Sarojni Baskey on the midnight of 15.10.1987. The trial judge, while acquitting Surendra Murmu, the 5th accused in the Sessions case, found the appellants alone guilty, as charged, and sentenced each one of them to imprisonment for life. The appellants, aggrieved by the said judgment and order of conviction and sentence, have preferred the above appeal.

(2.) THE appellants and the other acquitted Surendra Murmu will be referred A -l to A -5 in the order, they were arrayed before the Sessions Judge.

(3.) AFTER the taking of investigation, inquest was conducted and thereafter the body was sent for autopsy with a request to the doctor.