JUDGMENT

YOGESHWAR DAYAL, J.

(1) THIS order will dispose of Special Leave Petition (Criminal) No. 2505 of 1990 filed by Didar Singh and Special Leave Petition (Criminal) No. 621 of 1992 filed by Satnam Singh son of Fauja Singh and Avtar Singh son of Anup Singh.

(2) SPECIAL leave granted in both the petitions.

(3) ALL the three were convicted by order of the Additional Sessions Judge, Karnal, dated 24/02/1988 under Section 302 read with Section 34, Indian Penal Code and were sentenced by a separate order of the same date for imprisonment for life. During trial Didar Singh, appellant, was on bail. All the three filed a criminal appeal before the High court of Punjab and Haryana and a division bench of the High court by the impugned judgment dated 7/05/1990 retained the conviction and sentence of all the three and dismissed the appeal.

(4) THE case was based on the circumstantial evidence as there was no direct evidence of the eyewitnesses in the case. The High court classified the circumstantial evidence into four parts as under:

"(I) Oral evidence of Attar Singh Public Witness 2 real brother of the deceased that the deceased was called b