(1) THIS appeal by special leave is directed against a judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High court and confined to the question of nature of the offence and sentence. Prosecutions case is detailed in the judgment of the High court and it is not necessary for us to repeat them all over again, particularly in view of the short point raised by the learned counsel for the appellant. According to the case as set out in the FTR as also in the charge framed against the accused persons it was said that 5 persons viz., Piara Singh the appellant, Sukhminder Singh, Gurmail Singh, Avtar Singh and Zora Singh participated in the assault and caused injuries on the person of the deceased from the wrong side of the Toki. During the course of the trial the accused persons claimed that they were not known to the informant or the witnesses and. therefore, they should be put at a TI parade so as to be identified by the witnesses. This plea however was not accepted by the court, obviously because of the fact that the informant had not only given the names of the accused but also had stated that the accused persons were known to the informant. The High court seems to have acquitted all the othe