JUDGMENT

Faizan Uddin, J.-Both these appeals are preferred against the common judgment, one having been preferred by the State of Haryana and another by complainant Hazara Singh, the son of the deceased. These two appeals have been directed against the reversing judgment of the High Court of Punjab & Haryana rendered in Crl. A. No. 265-DB of 1984 decided on 12.10.1984 whereby the judgment of the Sessions Judge, Karnal in Sessions Case No. 6/84 convicting the respondents under Section 302 read with Section 34 IPC, sentenced to undergo life imprisonment and respondent Ranjit Singh also under Section 27 of the Arms Act to undergo rigorous imprisonment for six months, both the sentences to run concurrently, has been set aside.

2. The prosecution case was that the deceased Ran Singh had taken two trolleys of paddy for sale to the grain market, Karnal on 25.10.1983 along with his son Hazara Singh, PW 2 and one Sukha Singh, PW 3. Since one of the trolleys could not be unloaded for want of space in the market area and, therefore, all the three had to stay for the night at Shop No. 18 of Ajit Singh, a commission agent. It is said that during the intervening night of 25th and 26th October, 198