Judgment

FAZAL ALI, J.:- In this appeal under S. 2a of the SC (Enlargement of Criminal Appellate Jurisdiction) Act, the appellants have been convicted under S. 202 read with S. 149 and sentenced to imprisonment for life. They have also been convicted under S. 148 I.P.C. and sentenced to one years R. I. They are further convicted under S. 324 read with S. 149 for which they have been sentenced to two years R.I. The sentences have been directed to run concurrently. All the appellants were acquitted by the learned Sessions Judge but the High Court on appeal by the State convicted them of the various charges mentioned above.

2. We have gone through the judgment of the High Court and that of the Sessions Judge. We find ourselves in complete agreement with the judgment of the High Court. It appears that all the four eye-witnesses P. Ws. 1,2,5 and 14 have given consistent and cogent evidence which has been accepted by the High court after discussing their evidence. The High Court observed as follows:-

"Nothing was shown to us in the statements of the eye-witnesses by the learned counsel for the respondents on account of which their statements may be rejected. We have not come across any mat