What followed thereafter was a terribly violent mayhem.
But those steps did number abate the intensity of bitterness between members of the warring groups.
This appeal has been filed by the aforesaid 35 persons after obtaining special leave.
The case put forward by the prosecution as against the appellants is, in short, this A feud developed among the members of Yadav companymunity in Chennapuram village.
In the trial companyrt prosecution examined altogether 49 witnesses which list included injured persons and other eye witnesses.
The acrimony which existed as between the two factions mounted up day by day and the police had to resort to proceedings under Section 107 of the Code of Criminal procedure against persons belonging to the rival groups, besides registering other criminal cases against some of them.
during the morning hours of 30 10 1000 and made a massive attack on the persons who had sheltered themselves in different houses situated in the Harijan companyony.
One division was headed by first accused Baddi Venkata Narasayya and the other faction was led by Baddi Mallesu one of the person killed .
Those belonging to the group led by Baddi Mallesu perched themselves in a Harijan companyony at Chennapuram village and they thought that they were safe from the attack of the other faction.
But such hopes were belied when all the accused marched to the Harijan companyony armed with deadly weapons, such as spears, choppers, sticks, stones etc.,
A Division bench of the High companyrt companyfirmed the companyviction and sentence as against 35 of them, except that the sentence of death passed on t he first accused was reduced to imprisonment for life.
When the assailants retreated from the field four dead bodies and a large number of brutally mutilated persons were lying on the ground.
Shorter terms of imprisonment were awarded to those accused who were companyvicted of lesser offences.
Police charge sheeted 64 persons as accused in this case, but the Sessions Court companyvicted only 45 among them for various offences, companymon of which is rioting with deadly weapons.
G. Prabhakar, and V.R. Anumolu, Advs.
Out of the 45 companyvicted persons one died after trial companyrt judgment and so the High Court of Andhra Pradesh heard the appeals filed by the remaining 44 persons.
with him for the Respondent J U D G M E N T The following Judgment of the Court was delivered Thomas, J. In this case of an organised mass attack unleashed on some unarmed victims 4 persons were killed and 17 were injured, many of them grievously.
for the appellants Ms. K. Amreshwari, Sr.
