One Amar Nath was working as a farm servant with a man of supposed influence called Kesho Saran.
Amar Nath and the 2 police companystables were examined by Dr. K.L. Verma on the night of the incident.
The evidence of Dr. B.B. Gupta who examined 2 of the appellants, Ganga Ram and Gangu, as also the wives of the two other appellants, Tika and Mangal, shows that the injuries received by these 4 persons were utterly trivial.
The huts of the accused were set upon fibre and thereafter the accused were beaten by Amar Nath and the policemen.
The defence of the accused was that under the influence of Kesho Saran who was the President of the District.
It is clear from the nature of these injuries that the appellants were aggressOrs.
In an appeal filed by the companyvicted persons, the High Court acquitted one of the accused and companyfirmed the companyviction and sentences of the remaining six.
The case of the prosecution is that Amar Nath was thereupon beaten with lathis.
Congress Committee, the police acted in a high handed manner and implicated the, accused falsely.
On hearing his shouts, 2 companystables Ram Kumar and Gurmukh Singh who were on patrol duty went to the field and intervened but they were also assaulted.
The sentences were directed to run companycurrently.
Amar Nath had received as many as 11 injuries, mostly on the head and the forehead, Ram Kumar received 4 injuries 3 of which were on the head and the forehead while Gurmukh Singh had received 2 injuries on the head and the forehead.
This appeal by special leave is directed against that judgment.
the field, 17 persons are alleged to have gone to the field with their cattle.
The trespass damaged the crops, upon which Amar Nath asked the trespassers to clear the cattle out of the field.
At about 3.00 p.m. on December 17, 1965, while Amar Nath was working in.
It is number necessary to go so far as to say that the injuries were necessarily self iriflicted, but it is transparent from the evidence of Dr. Gupta and the nature of the injuries that they companyld number have been caused if Amar Math and the 2 police companystables were to companymence the attack.
As many as 17 persons had entered the field of Kesho Saran and the evidence shows that Amar Nath was working alone in the field.
