Judgment

Rajendra Babu, J.-On June 28, at about 11.45 a.m. when Jagdish Lal and Sunil Kumar were present on the roof of Anjali Dye House to spread dyed curtains on the roof they saw Jawahar Lal, their brother, being dragged by the accused inside a nearby house. They rushed down and went to the house of the accused where they found that Jawahar Lal’s hands were tied by a string towards his back and was forcibly taken inside one of the rooks of the house of the accused. On a lalkaar (exhortation) given by Ram Pal (one of the accused), Raja (the other accused) gave a blow with an iron rod (saria) on the head of Jawahar Lal who fell down and the accused gave further blows with their saria to Jawahar Lal, hitting him on all parts of the body. Jagdish Lal and Sunil Kumar could not do anything and raised an alarm which attracted the attention of Mohinder Singh who was drawn to the spot who too observed the occurrence. Thereafter the accused ran away from the spot with their respective weapons. These witnesses went inside to see Jawahar Lal and got released his hand which had been tied with the string and they found to their shock that Jawahar Lal was already dead. On that basis an FIR was