JUDGMENT:— This appeal is preferred by the appellants 1-7 canvassing the correctness of the judgment made in Criminal Appeal No. 815 of 1986 on the file of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh. The appellants took their trial before the Trial Court under four charges for offences under Ss.- 120B, 302 read with 149, 307 read with 149 and 201, I.P.C. on the allegations that all of them formed themselves into an unlawful assembly and entered into a criminal conspiracy to cause the death of Lakshmireddy, the deceased herein, and in prosecution of the same they murdered the deceased; attempted the cause _ the death of PW 1 and caused disappearance of evidence of murder by throwing the dead body into the river Kundu with the intention of screening themselves from the legal punishment. The Trial Court for the reasons given in the judgment convicted the appellants under all the charges - namely under S. 148, I.P.C. and sentenced each of them to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of 2 years; under S. 302 read with S. 149, I.P.C. and sentenced them to undergo imprisonment for life and under S. 20 1, I.P.C. and sentenced them to undergo imprisonment for a period of four years with the dir