PREM LAL MANDAL Vs. STATE OF BIHAR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) APPELLANTS Prem Lal Mandal and Dhola Mandal were arrayed as A -1 and A -3 before the Sessions Court along with Bhuneshwar Mandal who was acquitted by the trial Court in Sessions No. 79 of 1988/6 of 1989. The appellants on being found guilty under Sec.302/34, Indian Penal Code, were convicted and sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for life, which is challenged in this appeal.

(2.) THE case of the prosecution can be 'briefly summarized as follows.

(3.) ON receipt of the requisition, PW 9 Dr. Ashok Kumar, Civil Assistant Surgeon (CAS) attached to the Government Hospital at Godda conducted autopsy on the dead body of the deceased and he found the following injuries :