Judgment

S.P. Kurdukar, J.-The two condemned prisoners/appellants, namely, Shiv Prakash Pandey (A-1) and Shobhit Chamar (A-2) had initially sent a petition through jail to this Court which was registered as Special Leave Petition (Crl.) No. 3576 of 1997 wherein leave was granted and a Criminal Appeal No. 1084 of 1997 came to be registered. In the mean­time, the condemned prisoners filed Special Leave Petition (Crl.) Nos. 3729-30 of 1997 through their Advocate against the very same judgment and order of conviction passed by the High Court of Patna, hence Leave is granted herein as well. Since both these Criminal Appeals are filed by the condemned prisoners challenging the legality and correctness of the judgment of the High Court wherein the death sentence of both the appellants for committing six murders is confirmed, they are being disposed of by his common judgment.

2. The prosecution story unfolded at the trial is as under :-

Jagarnath Pandey (since deceased) was the resident of village Tirojpur under police station Durgawati, district Rohtas. He owned a house and an agricultural land having a bore well and a chamber room. The occur­rence in the present case took place in his resid