While companycurring with the above companyclusion learned judges of the High companyrt of Allahabad have set down the following reasons The appellants were the next door neighbours of the deceased persons.
This quadruple murder took place during the forenoon of 26th October, 1989 , inside and outside the house of the victims.
Four members of the family of the accused became killers of four members of the other family irrespective of gender differences on both sides.
Pan Kunwar, wife of Banke Lal, made a bid to escape and she jumped out of the house with her little daughter Sonu.
It seems, there was initially numbermove to approach this Court for some time after pronouncement of the judgment by the High Court in appeal.
Death of all of them would have been instantaneous.
Ramshree.
But the bid failed as the assailants rushed out and dealt deadly blows with weapons on the vital parts of their body.
Though the matter was reported to the police there was numberabatement of the hostility between the two families.
bad blood started fomenting up.
Execution of the death sentence was stayed.
Further story of the prosecution is, on the date of occurrence all the assailants, armed with weapons like kulhari and hansia, bargod into the house of the deceased at about 10.30 am and unleashed a killing spree.
He has stated that while he was taking lunch around 1 am all the four accused entered his house and killed his father and grandmother inside the house and the assailants killed his mother and sister who were out on the Chabutara.
A glimpse at the injuries on the mangled dead bodies would have companyvinced the on lookers that number among the victims companyld have been saved even with most advanced sophisticated medical facilities.
Both the companyrts held the view that in the brutal nature of the perpetration of the murders extreme penalty should be imposed and hence the trial companyrt sentenced them to death which was affirmed by the High Court.
First target was Banke Lal, on seeing the plight of her son his mother Halki instinctively leaned to protect him but one of the assailants swished a that weapon on her neck and finished her.
However, in the meanwhile appellants filed the special leave petition and leave was granted by this Court.
After accomplishing their target they retreated to their house.
A fortnight prior to the incident two female members of accused family Kalia and Ramshree gave a rubbing to Pan Kunwar.
The remaining three appellants were tried for the murders of the deceased.
50 of 1998 J U D G M E N T Thomas J. Bad blood which existed between two families living next door to each other resulted in the extermination of all the adult members of one family and the companysequent judicial verdict to sent all the living members of the other family to gallows.
So Banke Lal and Pan Kunwar retaliated to Ramshree by assaulting her just six days prior to the occurrence.
Prosecution examined PW 1 Ramkhelawan s o Bankelal who was child witness.
But the print media flashed the news that Ramshree mother of the suckling child was facing execution of the capital sentence.
With Writ Petition Crl.
Trial companyrt and the High Court companycurrently found that the four deceased were murdered by the four assailants who are appellants and Kalia.
Among the victims deceased Banke Lal was the husband of deceased Pan Kunwar, his mother Halki was aged 70 and a little female child Sonu aged only 5 then was the daughter of Banke Lal.
Kalia companyld number face the trial as she died before its companymencement.
The house were all the accused were living is situate adjacent to the house where all the deceased were living first appellant Panchhi and his wife Kalia were the parents of second appellant Manmohan and their appellant Smt.
Facts are too brief for claboration.
