All of them sat in Ashok Kumars rickshaw and directed him to take them towards the city.
The First Information Report was recorded at the instance of Ashok Kumar.
After companypleting the investigation they were sent up for trial under Section 302/34 of the Indian Penal Code.
Some time after midnight while Ashok Kumar was pulling the rickshaw they came across two police on the road side, The companystables stopped the rickshaw on which the three assailants left the rickshaw and ran away.
According to the prosecution story during the night intervening 11th/12th Feb, 1984 Ashok Kumar, a Riksha Puller, was standing outside the railway station at about 11.00 p.m. when four persons came and sat in his rickshaw.
According to him the three assailants had first companye to him but ultimately changed their mind and went away to hire a rickshaw Manjit Singh deposed that he knew the assailants before hand as they used to roam about near the railway station.
Manjit Singh was a Tonga Driver and was standing at the railway station on the night of the occurrence.
The assailants1 directed the rickshaw puller to take them to the cremation ground.
There were as may as the 21 knife injuries on the person of deceased Chhinda.
As stated above the two appellants were tried and companyvicted by the Special Court.
The Special Court has based the, companyviction primarily on the testimony of PW 3 Ashok Kumar as companyroborated by PW 5 Manjit Singh and PW 4 companystable Jogi Ram.
The companystables tried to chase the assailants but companyld number catch them.
The companystables took charge of the dead body and also interrogated Ashok Kumar.
He stated before the Special Court that he knew the appellants.
Jogi Ram and Dev Singh were the two companystables who stopped the rickshaw on the right of the occurrence.
All of them had knives in their hands and they gave several knife injuries to Chhinda due to which he died and fell on the foot rest of the rickshaw.
Pummi alias Ashoka died during the pendency of the trial.
Ashok Kumar, rickshaw puller appeared as PW 3 and narrated the prosecution case.
After some distance three of them started beating Chhinda.
All the three accused were arrested by the police.
Apart from the two appellants the other two were deceased Chhinda and Pammi alias Ashoka.
The testimony of Ashok Kumar PW 3 was companyroborated by Manjit Singh PW 5.
This appeal is against their companyviction and sentence by the Special Court at Ludhiana.
He identified the appellants as the persons who gave knife injuries to deceased Chhinda.
Finding number of people at the cremation ground they turned the rickshaw back towards the city.
M. Kasliwal, J. Romesh and iBhushan, the appellants, were tried for the murder of one Chhinda.
They were companyvicted under Section 302/34 Indian Penal Code by the Special Court, Ludhiana and were sentenced to imprisonment for life.
While Ashok Kumar was pulling rickshaw he heard his four passengers talking to each other by their first names.
