Later they were informed that all the persons who had been taken away by the mob have been shot dead.
From the roof of the house she and the other female members saw that those people who had surrounded the deceased had tied their hands behind their back.
After sometime, the female members of the family heard sound of gun shots.
These four female members of the family are PW 5, 6, 7 and 8.
She along with three other female members of the family went to the roof of the house along with the licensed gun of one of the deceased and a bundle of cartridges.
All the companyvicted persons preferred appeals before the High Court being Criminal Appeal Nos.
PW8, a female member of the family rushed to the door and finding so many persons armed with fire arms closed the door and rushed inside the house.
They were demanding the gun and the cartridges.
The father in law of PW8 implored PW8 to give away the gun otherwise all of them will be killed.
Seven of the appellants have preferred these appeals by special leave.
They thereafter tied their hands and demanded their gun.
One of the members of the mob picked up the gun and cartridges whereafter all five male members of the family whose hands had been tied were taken by the mob towards the South.
Five male members of the family since deceased who were sitting in the dalan of the house after taking their breakfast were surrounded by them.
Soon thereafter the female members of the family heard the sound of gun shots 10 15 in number.
They surrounded the five male members of the family who were sitting in the dalan.
For fear that all of them will be killed, PW8 who had gone to the terrace along with the gun and cartridges threw away the gun and cartridges which was picked by the miscreants.
Sometime later they were informed that all the five members of the family had been shot dead in an orchard which was situated about one furlong from their house.
The High Court by its impugned judgment and order dismissed the appeals preferred by the appellants as well as the Government Appeal preferred by the State.
Heeding to his advise, she threw the gun from the roof along with the cartridges.
Thereafter the miscreants took the male members of the family along with them and moved in the southward direction.
The State also preferred Government Appeal No.20/1999 against the acquittal of the remaining accused.
It, however, acquitted four of the accused persons of all the charges levelled against them primarily on the ground that they were number named in the First Information Report.
According to the prosecution 18 20 armed people in khaki uniform came to the dalan of the deceased.
The case of the prosecution is that an occurrence took place on 28th August, 1994 at about 9.00 A.M. in village Dawanpur which falls within the jurisdiction of police station Bhagwanpur in the District of Kaimur, Bihar in which five members of the family of the informant were killed.
P.SINGH,J. The seven appellants before us were tried along with five others by the First Additional Sessions Judge, Bhabua Kaimur in Sessions Trial No.
