ORDER

1. The appellant is one of the three accused persons convicted for offences under Sections 302, 387 read with Section 34 IPC. On 22-1-1992 at 6.30 p.m. the three persons were alleged to have gone to the shop of the deceased. They asked the shop-owner to come out. On the deceased going out of the shop, two of the assailants (one of them is the appellant) held two revolvers to the head of the victim and the third one (A-l Naresh Lal) had a dagger with him. Keeping the victim in that form they asked him to pay Rs 5000 plus the entire collection in the shop for that day. As the victim could not pay the said amount he expressed his helplessness. Keeping the victim in this form they asked his son PW 4 Anil Kumar to meet the demand. PW 4 also expressed helplessness to oblige the assailants. Then A-I Naresh Lal plunged the dagger into the abdomen of the victim. Thereafter, all the three ran away from the scene. The deceased succumbed to the injury thereby sustained.

2. As the trial court and the High Court believed the aforesaid version put forth by three witnesses (one of them was an employee of the same shop, another one was the neighbouring shop-owner and the third PW 4 Anil Kumar