According to the State, Stake, death penalty was the proper sentence.
He had to be hospitalized.
Gadgenagar, in which the two deceased resided, was a part of village Shegaon.
Of the three remaining accused, and Raj Singh.
The trial saw the companyviction of the five accused under section 302/149 in the alternative 302/34.
During the pendency of these appeals.
Five persons were booked for trial for the murder which included two Rathod brothers Jai Singh and Raj Singh.
The accused were also companyvected under sections 147 and 148.
They used to take keen interest in the local panchayat politics.
Thereafter, the present occurrence occurred past midnight of 3rd September itself, when, it is alleged, that the aforesaid five persons murdered the two Mahalle brothers.
Nothing untoward occurred till Pola of 1978 but after Pola occurred on 2.9.1978, Bhaskar was severally beaten on the afternoon of 3rd September at Amravati.
The High Court by the impugned judgment dismissed all five appeals.
It is Bhaskar, however, who got elected.
The five companyvicts preferred four different appeals.
During the pendency appeal before the High Court, accused No.3, Devi Das had died.
Both the groups wanted their own candidate to became Sarpanch.
To start with, the relationship between the Mahalle brothers and Rathod brothers was quite thick.
Bhaskar Kale was the candidate of the Rathod brothers, while Mahalle brothers desired their relative Dilip to become Sarpanch.
They, however, fell out when the election for Shegaon village took place in the month of May, 1978.
2 and 4, namely Jai Singh Bandu, Raj singh Raju Ghanshyam have been legally companyvicted under the aforesaid sections.
Of the Rathod brothers and two Ghanshyam and Sudhakar are said to belong to the of Rathod brothers.
The State also appealed as the trial companyrt had awarded sentence of life imprisonment for the principal offence of murder.
The relationship got strained thereafter and political jealousy are.
accused No.5 Sudhakar, has died.
Accused Raj Singh Raju suspected that Narendra had some hand in the incident.
HANSARIA.J. Two Mahalle brothers Narendra and Ramesh Were done to death on the night intervening 4th 5th September, 1978.
