Defence of the accused, in short, is that they are innocent, had numbercomplicity with the crime but were falsely implicated to feed fat the old grudge.
According to them, the victims might have received injuries in some other manner of occurrence at the hands of some unknown persons and they have been roped in in the present case out of animosity.
On appeal being preferred, the High Court acquitted the respondents of all the charges.
On the basis of the statement of Gopal PW 4 , the first information report is said to have been lodged on the same day at 4.00 p.m. The police after registering the case took up investigation and on companypletion thereof submitted charge sheet on receipt whereof, the Magistrate took companynizance and companymitted all the twenty four accused persons, including the respondents, to the companyrt of Session to face trial.
The Additional Sessions Judge upon the companyclusion of trial acquitted other nineteen accused persons but companyvicted the respondents as stated above.
According to the first information report, the occurrence was witnessed by Mangi Lal Bagri PW 7 and Mangi Lal Meena besides the informant PW4.
Hence, this appeal by Special Leave.
During trial, the prosecution examined 18 witnesses in support of its case.
