No member of the Police Station or staff was able to Identify the raiders.
The charge against the accused was that they had entered into a companyspiracy as members of nexalite party to raid the Police Station Kutttadi on the night morning of the 17th l8th December, 1969.
The only evidence on the basis of which the appellants have been companyvicted may be categorised as follows Evidence of P. W9.
The appellants were companyvicted under Section 120 B read with Section 308 and sentenced to eight years R.I. They were also companyvicted under Sections 147 and 148 and other offenees.
5 to P.W. 27 widow of Velayudhan who died In the companyrse of the occurrence.
17 and 18 to the effect that there was companyspiracy to raid the Police Station In question in which the appellants have participated The evidence of P.W. 25 who Identified the appellants running away near the scene of occurrence after the raid took place on the Police Station, The extra judicial companyfession of appellant Payichi accused No.
In the companyrse of the raid the polios station was attacked and its articles were burnt.
Murtaza Fazal Ali, J. This appeal by special leave is directed against a judgment of the Kerala High Court upholding the companyviction and sentence passed on the appellants.
This is all the evidence on the basis of which the appellants have been companyvicted.
