389 and 406 of 1954 arising out of the judgment and order dated june 16 1954 of the companyrt of the additional sessions judge ferozepur in sessions case number 5 of 1954 and trial number 5 of 1954.
jai gopal sethi vidya dhar mahajan and k. l. arora for the appellants.
mani ram then began to plough the field with his tractor.
narain jot ram and gheru have appealed to this companyrt from that judgment.
mani ram might have received injuries from these firings also.
sahi ram had been a tenant of the land.
jalu had companye on a horse.
he told the pursuers of moola ram to leave him as he was merely a hired man and pointed out that the real culprit mani ram was about to escape in the tractor.
appeal by special leave from the judgment and order dated february 18 1955 of the punjab high companyrt in criminal appeals number.
on june 14 1953 mani ram a son of the proprietor arrived at the field on a tractor accompanied by a tabourer moola ram with the object of ploughing it and found sahi ram actually ploughing.
149 and 34 of the indian penal companye by the additional ses.
narain on his horse soon overtook mani ram and fired at him while he was still on the tractor in the drivers seat.
there were two unknumbern persons with raghbir and mani ram at this time and they also used their fire arms.
on appeal by the convicted persons the high companyrt of punjab maintained the convictions but reduced the sentences passed on jot ram and gheru to one years rigorous imprisonment and jalu to the term of imprisonment already undergone.
the pursuers then came up and jot ram fired a shot at mani ram inside the hut and so did gheru.
the prosecution case is that one sultan was the proprietor of a field described in the proceedings as plot number 97.
jot ram apprehending that he might also be shot at fired the pistol which he had taken from sahi ram and might have injured mani ram.
criminal appellate jurisdiction criminal appeal number 186 of 1956.
moola ram then attempted to run away whereupon sahi ram and his party chased him.
307 and 364 read with s. 34.
while sahi ram and his party had their attention on moola ram mani ram got into his tractor and began to drive away from the field.
mani ram picked himself up and staggered for shelter into the hut of one mukh ram which was nearby.
at this point of time narain arrived on a horse with a gun in his hand.
the land had number been cultivated in the year preceding the occurrence with which this case is companycerned and the owner had thereupon resumed possession of it.
raghbir abused sahi ram and fired a shot at him killing him outright.
they fell upon mani ram and assaulted him.
narains horse fell against the cultivator of the tractor and was injured.
a little later the tractor developed mechanical trouble and mani ram stopped ploughing and started attending to it.
the learned sessions judge acquitted four of the accused namely het ram teja ram manphul and surja ram as he did number think that their presence at the occurrence had been proved beyond reasonable doubt.
he sentenced narain jot ram and gheru to rigorous imprisonment for three years under s. 307 and two years under s. 364.
moola ram who ran to his rescue was also assaulted.
sahi ram raised a protest but eventually left abandoning his plough on the field.
december 4.
it maintained the sentence passed on narain and dismissed his appeal.
while mani ram was so engaged sahi ram arrived at the spot accompanied by seven persons being the accused earlier named other than narain variously armed.
sions judge ferozepur.
he companyvicted the remaining four namely narain jot ram gheru and jalu under ss.
the judgment of the companyrt was delivered by sarkar j. eight persons were tried or offences under ss.
s. bindra b. h. dhebar and t. m. sen for the respondent.
