Judgement

VAIDIALINGAM, J. : -The two appellants, in this appeal, by special leave, challenge their conviction, by the Additional Sessions Judge, No. 1, Jaipur City, for offences under Ss. 120-B. 420, 420 read with 511, and 467 read with 471, I. P. C., as confirmed by the High Court of Rajasthan, at Jodhpur. Bhanwar Singh has also been convicted, for an offence under S. 380, I. P. C. Both of them have been sentenced to various terms of imprisonment and fine, for these offences, and the sentences, of imprisonment have been directed to run concurrently.

2. The two appellants, along with two others, who have since been acquitted, were tried by the learned Sessions Judge, for various offences, as indicated below. There was a common charge of Criminal conspiracy, under S. 120-B, I. P. C., to do, or cause to be done, illegal acts, viz., offences of theft, cheating, forgeries, etc., against all the four accused. Under this head, the allegation was that the four accessed agreed, among themselves, to commit theft and pilferage, of Indian and British postal orders and bank cheques, belonging to different persons, which were in transmission, by post and that, after such pilfering, the names of