SANJAY @ GULABI MAHTO Vs. STATE OF BIHAR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) CRIMINAL Appeal No. 66 of 1998 is by A -l, A -3, A -4, A -5, A -6 and A -7 and Criminal Appeal No. 228 of 1998 is by A -2 in Sessions Case No. 417 of 1984/82 of 1988 on the file of the Sessions Judge, Godda. They were tried and convicted under Sec.302 read with 34 of the Indian Penal Code and each one of them was sentenced to imprisonment for life. The above two appeals are against the said conviction and sentence.

(2.) IN this judgment, the appellants (in both the appeals) will be referred as A -1 to A -7, in the same order, as they were arrayed before the Sessions Judge, and both the appeals are being disposed of by the following common judgment, for the sake of convenience.

(3.) AFTER the completion of investigation, final report was filed and the appellants denied the circumstances, put against them under Sec.313 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.