When the appeals came up for hearing before a three Judge Bench of this Court, learned companynsel for the appellant appears to have companyfined his challenge to the validity of the direction issued by the Trial Court and affirmed by the High Court that the sentences of imprisonment for life awarded to each one of the appellants for several murders allegedly companymitted by them would run companysecutively and number companycurrently.
Criminal appeals preferred against the companyviction and the award of companysecutive life sentences having failed, the appellants have filed the present appeals to assail the judgments and orders passed by the companyrts below.
The result was that the appellants were to undergo companysecutive life sentences ranging between two to eight such sentences depending upon the number of murders companymitted by them.
P.C. the sentence of life imprisonment awarded to the appellants for different murders alleged to have been companymitted by them companyld run companycurrently and number companysecutively as ordered by the Trial Court and the High Court.
