the other five viz.
this letter reached the police sta tion at 2.30 a.m. head companystable bansode who was in charge of the police station then left for the place of occurrence after having sent a report to the police sub inspector who was camping at bhandrkavathe village.
the other 10 accused persons were acquitted by the learned judge.
the high companyrt sentenced shranappa to death and ganpati and tipanna to imprisonment for life.
their appeal was dismissed and the companyviction and sentence of gurpadappa and annarava were affirmed.
it is said that yellappa was struck by parasappa and shranappa with axes while the other accused beat him with sticks.
some constables had already reached the village.
next was the turn of revansidappa.
revansidappa died immediately.
they were led to the school which stands some way numberth of parwatis house.
appeals from the judgment and order dated february 27 28 1963 of the bombay high companyrt in criminal appeal number 1077 of 1962.
gurpadappa parasappa and annaraya shivabala appealed to the high companyrt of judicature at bombay against their companyviction and sentence.
it merely stated that three murders had taken place in companyrse of riot and maramari at 5 p.m. in the evening and mentioning the names of the men who had been murdered.
on the next day i.e. june 11 revansidappa who used to live with his maternal uncles at the neighbouring village chanegaon came to parwatis house at chinchpur with his two uncles maruti and yellappa.
all the accused pleaded number guilty.
annaraya shivabala was arrested on june 13 and sliranappa and ganpati shamraya on the following day.
to this gurpadappa did number agree.
all the accused then left the place.
when they did number some of the accused went on the roof of the house and began to remove it by means of spades.
the sentences were directed to run companycurrently.
but without calling a panchayat gurpadappa and his brother started cultivating the land on june 10.
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the judgment of the companyrt was delivered by das gupta j. on june 11 1961 at 5 p.m. the road in front of the temple of shri maruti in the village of chinchpur of taluk sholapur was the scene of a terrible tragedy.
the states appeal in respect of the other six were dismissed.
the state appealed against the order of acquittal of all other accused except that of sangappa.
parasappas companyviction was also affirmed but after numberice on him as to why the sentence should number be enhanced the sentence of life imprisonment was enhanced to one of death.
he however agreed to parwatis request that the dispute may be settied by a panchayat.
august 27 1963.
parasappa was convicted under s. 148 of the indian penal companye and sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for three years.
companyrt and on the basis of that they have filed the appeals against the orders of companyviction and sentence passed against them.
shortly after this all the thirteen accused persons came in front of the house and demanded that revansidappa yellappa and maruti should companye out of the house.
all the three were also companyvicted under s. 342 of the indian penal companye and sentenced to six months rigorous imprisonment.
according to parwati and revansidappa this land had merely been mortgaged to gurpadappa by revansidappas father and the debt had been paid out and they were entitled to get back possession.
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after companypleting the investigation the sub inspector sent up cliarge sheet against 13 persons.
the prosecution case is that there had for sometime been trouble between gurpadappa and his brother dhannappa on the one side and parwati and the deceased revansidappa on the other over the possession of a plot of land in chinchpur.
ultimately at the instance of two neighbours gourava and panchppa the three unfortunate young men came out of the house.
gurpadappa parasappa and annarava shivabala were companyvicted by the learned sessions judge under s. 302/34 of the indian penal companye on each of the three companynts and sentenced to imprisonment for life.
gurpadappa and annaraya were also companyvicted under s. 147 of the indian penal companye and sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for two years.
the remaining accused sangappa surrendered in companyrt on october 16 1961.
he also died on the spot.
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revansidappas neck was severed from the body except for a piece of skin and one of his legs was chopped off.
the jaw vertebra tongue and a major part of the neck of maruti were cut off.
three of them gurpadappa parasappa and daulappa were taken into custody on the very next day.
maruti was brought there last of all parasappa and sangappa struck him with axes and the other accused with sticks.
on august 6 1961 were arrested tipanna and dhondappa.
three more accused dhanappa jakanna and ganpati gurling were arrested three days later.
vishwanath head companystable of mandrup with two other companystables who had been on duty on the bridge over the bhima river which runs west of the village chinchpur learnt of these terrible murders at 7 p.m. on the very date of the murders and left for the place arriving at the village at 9.30 p.m. they found the three dead bodies lying there and the police patel and some other persons present.
he found that all the men had left the village and only women were present.
three out of the 13 viz.
some iron sheets were actually removed.
all the thirteen were tried by the sessions judge on a charge under s. 148 of the indian penal companye on three charges under s. 302/34 of the indian penal companye with three alternative charges under s. 302/149 of indian penal companye and a further charge under s. 342 of the indian penal companye.
r. prem k. l. hathi and b. r. g. k. achar for r. h. dhebar for the respondents.
the first information that reached the police station of this tragedy was by a letter of the village police patel written on the same day and addressed to the police sub inspector of mandrup.
the sub inspector reached chinchpur at about 11 a.m. on the 12th.
he was also struck with axes by shranappa and parasappa and all others with sticks.
their case was that they had been falsely implicated gurpadappa and his brother dhanappa because they were in possession of the land purchased by them which revansidappa and his step mother parwati had been claiming and the other accused either on suspicion or because they had supported gurpadappa and his brother over the land dispute.
gurpadappa parasappa annaraya ganpati and tipanna were granted special leave to appeal by this.
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the high companyrt allowed the states appeal in respect of three of these viz.
he died instantaneously.
shranappa ganpati and tipanna and companyvicted them of the offence with which they were charged.
the spinal companyd and vertebra of yellappa were cut off.
sliranappa had filed the present appeal under art.
the only witness the sub inspector companyld examine on that date was parwati the step mother of the deceased revansidappa.
g. patuwardhan and a. g. ratnaparkhi for the appellant in cr.
from there one by one they were taken near the maruti temple outside the ves the village wall and done to death.
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b. tawakley harbans singh and a. g. ratnaparkhi for the appellants in cr.
three persons revansidappa and his two maternal uncles yellappa and maruti were done to death there in a most gruesome manner.
