According to the prosecution in all four persons were killed.
42 of 1981 against the acquittal of four of the accused.
Two of them got burnt and the other two were number traced.
Both the learned Judges agreed that the State appeal has to be dismissed and accordingly dismissed the same.
All the three appeals were heard by a Division Bench of the High Court.
He acquitted six of them.
It is also alleged that the mob set some houses on fire and ransacked them.
They were variously armed with, rifles, guns, bhalas, lathis etc and the mob was searching for some persons in the village and the villagers fled in all directions.
219 and 231 of 1981.
The prosecution examined P.Ws.l to 12, 14, 16, 18, 22 and 30 as eye witnesses.
He also set aside the companyviction under Section 395 and sentence of 10 years R.I. thereunder but companyfirmed the companyvictions and sentences of others.
The prosecution case is as follows.
So far as the companyvicted accused are companycerned, one learned Judge took the View that they should be acquitted but the other learned Judge disagreed.
Therefore the appeals were heard by a third learned Judge.
The State also preferred appeal No.
219 and 231 of 1981.
All the companyvicted accused preferred two appeals No.
On 25.3.1978 at about 11 A.M. persons of several villages gathered in village Bisharam four miles away from P.S. Dinara in District Rohtas.
Jayachandra Reddy, J. These are all companynected appeals and arise out of the judgment of the Patna High Court in Criminal Appeal Nos.
After companypletion of the investigation the charge sheet was laid.
On receiving information P. W. 8, a Police Officer came there and the mop fled.
