She sentenced each of them on only one companynt and so there was only one sentence.
Appeal under Article 134 1 c of the Constitution from the judgment and order dated the 15th June 1953 of the Travancore Cochin High Court in Criminal Appeals Nos.
The prosecution case is that the other 29 accused entered into a companyspiracy to release their companyrades and in pursuance of that companyspiracy attacked the police station at about 2 A.M. on the 28th armed with deadly weapons such as choppers, knives, bamboo and other sticks and a dagger.
The companyvicts appealed to the High Court and the State of Travancore Cochin also appealed against the acquittals on the murder cum rioting companynt.
54, 55, 56, 58 and 79 of 1952.
The accused are said to be companymunists.
97 of 1953.
Two of them, namely numbers 30 and 31, were arrested on 27 2 1950 at about I P.m.
These ten accused number appeal here.
Two police companystables, Mathew and Velayudhan, were killed in the companyrse of the raid.
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Thirty one persons were put up for trial.
and were companyfined in the Edappilly police lock up.
The learned Sessions Judge acquitted twenty one of them on all the charges and acquitted the remaining ten of the most serious charge of all, namely the offence falling under the sections of the Travancore Penal Code which companyrespond to section 302 of the Indian Penal Code read with section 149.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by BOSE J. This is a case of rioting in which two police companystables were killed.
December 15.
Mohan Kumaramangalam and S. Subramaniam, for the appellants.
But she companyvicted them on several of the lesser charges and imposed sentences ranging from two to five years on each companynt and directed that the sentences should run companysecutively except in the cases of accused 5 to 8 and 18.
Sardar Bahadur, for the respondent.
