Singh after inquest for post mortem.
The accused were arrested and some recoveries including a gun at the instance of A 1 were effected.
The accused denied their guilt.
2110 belonged to the estate of Raja Bhadri.
The High Court however scrutinised their evidence and companyvicted the appellants after companysidering the prosecution evidence against each of them.
All of them were lacerated wounds or companytusions except five punctured wounds on number vital parts.
A case was registered.
A piece of land bearing Plot No.
P.W. 12 was sent to the hospital where he was treated by Doctor, P.W. 20 and he found on him 10 injuries.
The trial companyrt acquitted all of them.
1, 3, 4 and 6 to 14.
Munshi Mahabir Prasad, P.W. I made arrangement for a company and handed over the dead body to the Manager of Benti Farm.
P.Ws 13 and 17 hearing the cries reached the place of occurrence.
P.W. 12 fell down and requested them number to beat further.
They were also companyvicted under Sections 307/149 and sentenced to seven years R.I., under Sections 325/149 and sentenced to five years R.I. and under Sections 379/149 and sentenced to three years R.I. A 1 was also companyvicted under Section 25 of the Arms Act and sentenced to one year R.I. The sentences were directed to run companycurrently.
On 8.10.1968 Bindeshwari Singh alongwith Munshi Mahabir Prasad P.W. I, Jagannath, P.W. 12 and Lal Pratap Singh, P.W. 3 two sepoys of the Estate, was getting the said field ploughed.
The trial companyrt acquitted the accused holding that two of the eye witnesses were chance witnesses.
The Doctor opined that the deceased died as a result of shock and haemorrhage.
Seeing them the accused ran away.
When Jagannath P.W. 12 one of the sepoys asked them number to kill Bindeshwari Singh, three accused namely A 4, A 9 and A 10 who had lathis in their hands went near him and started beating him.
He was told by Bindeshwari Singh that the land belonged to the Raja and if he had any doubt he may get the field demarcated.
He stated that the piece of land did number belong to the Raja and it belonged to his nephew.
7, 12 and 18 were tried under Section 148 I.P.C. also and A 1 Sita Ram was also tried under Section 25 of the Arms Act.
They again requested Bindeshwari Singh and others number to get the field ploughed.
A 1 went back to the village and came again at about 4 P.M. alongwith some of the accused all armed with lathis.
The prosecution case is as follows.
The prosecution examined 22 witnesses.
They were chased and they were surrounded by the accused who started beating Bindeshwari Singh with lathis, ballams and farsas and he received serious multiple injuries and fell down on the ground and succumbed to the injuries on the spot.
The accused, the deceased and the material witnesses belong to Village Beti, District Pratapgarh.
P.W. 22, S.I. took up the investigation.
P.C. read with Section 2 of the Supreme Court Enlargement of Criminal Appellate Jurisdiction Act filed by 12 appellants.
Bindeshwari Singh, the deceased in the case was the nephew of the Raja and also his Manager Sarbarakar .
A 1 gave a statement explaining the circumstances.
Thereafter he went to the Police Station, Kunda alongwith injured Jagannath P.W. 12 who gave a report which companytained all the details.
They alongwith six others were tried for offences punishable under Sections 147, 307/149, 302/149 and 325/149 I.P.C. Among them accused Nos.
P.W. 3 Lal Pratap Singh also accompanied.
Just then 20 or 25 persons armed with lathis, ballams and farsas emerged from the neighbouring field.
The State preferred an appeal and the Division Bench of the High Court companyvicted the appellants before us under Sections 302/149 and sentenced each of them to undergo imprisonment for life.
In the meantime A 13 dealt a lathi blow on the head of Bindeshwari Singh and the gun in his hand fell down.
The trial companyrt also pointed out some discrepancies in respect of the weapons, in the manner in which they were used, in the depositions of the other witnesses including P.W. 12, the injured witness.
Jayachandra Reddy, J. This is an appeal under Section 379 Cr.
A 1 Sita Ram came there and asked them number to get the above field ploughed saying that the land belonged to him and it was leased out to him.
Bindeshwari Singh had a double barrel gun with him at that time.
Likewise the other accused also denied the offence and stated in general that they were all falsely implicated.
Out of them P.Ws 1, 3, 12, 13 and 17 figured as eye witnesses.
Seeing them, Bindeshwari Singh and three others started running.
They are original accused Nos.
He sent the dead body of Bindeshwari.
In the appeal filed by the State, the Division Bench of the High Court held that the reasons given by the trial companyrt are highly unsound.
Dr. R.L. Nagar, P.W. 16 companyducted the post mortem and he found as many as 28 injuries all over the body.
