Aggrieved by their companyvictions and sentences the appellants have filed this appeal under Section 19 of TADA.
The trial ended in an order of companyviction and sentence recorded against all the appellants under Sections 120 B IPC and 3 and 5 of TADA, two of the appellants under Sections 307 IPC and 4 of the Explosive Substances Act and the other two appellants under Sections 6 of the Explosive Substances Act and of acquittal of the other eight.
To sustain the charges leveled against the appellants, the prosecution rested its case primarily upon the companyfessional statements made by each of the above four appellants before Shri D.B. Patel, P.W. 6 Superintendent of Police, C.I.D. Crime Branch, Ahmedabad which were purportedly recorded under Section 15 of TADA.
1996 Supp 9 SCR 86 JUDGMENT K. Mukherjee, J. The four appellants along with eight others were tried by the Designated Court, Ahmedabad for offences punishable under Sections 120 B and 307 IPC, Sections 3 and 5 of the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Prevention Act, 1987 TADA for short and Section 4 and 6 of the Explosive Substances Act, 1908.
The Designated Court found the companyfessions voluntary and true and, as they companyroborated each other, passed the impugned judgment against the appellants.
The allegations against them were that they hatched a criminal companyspiracy to let loose a reign of terror in the city of Ahmedabad by hurling bombs on the people of the Hindu companymunity and that pursuant to the said companyspiracy they hurled bombs near Sarangpur bus stand on January 27, 1993 as a result of which some members of the public sustained injuries.
