Judgment

JUDGMENT:- The State of U. P. feeling aggrieved by the judgment of the High Court of Allahabad rendered in Criminal Appeal No. 1244 of 1975 allowing the appeal by setting aside the judgment of the trial Court convicting the respondent-accused under S. 302. I.P.C. and sentencing him to imprisonment for life.

2. Before the trial Court, this respondent and four others (since acquitted) took their trial on the allegation that on 6th March, 1973 at about 12 noon within the premises of BN Hostel, Agra College, all of them formed themselves into an unlawful assembly each armed with a deadly weapon and that the respondent herein caused the death of the deceased by name Bhagwan Das Sharma by shooting him with a country-made pistol.

3. It is a very unfortunate and pathetic incident in which the life of a student had been done away with by another group of students on an unpleasant incident of eve-teasing of a girl student of the college. It is still more painful that none of the students has come forward to speak about the truth of the incident before the Court despite the fact that four witnesses have been examined who were all college students. It is also very unhappy to note that ev