DEO SINGH Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) FOUR appellants, including two sibling brothers Deo Singh (A- 1), and Megh Singh (A-2) and two others, Chheda Lal (A-3) and Chob Singh (A-4) were convicted under section 302/34 I.P.C. by VIIIth Additional Session's Judge, Etah, in S.T. No. 281 of 1982, State Vs. Deo Singh and others, relating to P.S. Sahawar, District Etah, vide impugned judgment and order dated 22.8.83 and hence convicted accused have preferred instant appeal challenging their aforesaid conviction and sentences.

(2.) PROSECUTION allegations, as narrated by the informant Lala Ram (P.W. 1) in his written FIR Ext. Ka-1, and later on deposed in the Session's Trial, were that prosecution side as well as accused appellants, both were residents of the village Nagla Ishwari, P.S. Sahawar, District Etah. To make the prosecution allegation clear, a pedigree, as was testified by Lala Ram P.W. 1, is sketched herein under.

(3.) FOLLOWING day morning, wife of accused Chheda Lal informed the informant that his brother, Ram Autar, had been murdered and was bolted in the room. A similar news was also flashed in the village. Informant Lala Ram, thereafter, got FIR Ext. Ka-1, scribed through Mahesh and went to the Police Station Sahawar, at a distance of seven miles and lodged his FIR as crime no. 56/82, under section 302 I.P.C. against the appellants on the following morning 6.5.82 at 10.05 A.M.