Judgment

Fazl Ali, J. - The three appellants were tried by the Additional Sessions Judge at Amritsar and found guilty of having murdered two persons named Darshan Singh and Achhar Singh and sentenced to transportation for life. The High Court of Punjab upheld their conviction and sentence and granted them a certificate under Art. 134 (1) (c) of the Constitution that the case is a fit one for appeal to this Court. Hence this appeal

2. The facts of the case may be briefly stated as follows On the evening of 16-12-1948, a little before sunset, Achhar Singh, one of the murdered persons went to the house of one Inder Singh in village Dalam for getting paddy husked. Achhar Singh s brother, Darshan Singh, who was working as a driver at Amritsar. came to Dalam from Amritsar the same evening, and on coming to know from his father that Achhar Singh had gone to Inder Singh s house, he also went there. While the two brothers were returning home, they were attacked by the three appellants and two of their relatives in a lane adjoining Inder Singh s house. The five assailants. who were armed with deadly weapons, inflicted a number of injuries on the two victims, as a result of which they died then