Judgment :

Dr. B.S. Chauhan, J.

1. These appeals have been preferred against the judgment and order dated 26.3.2003 passed by the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh in Criminal Appeal Nos.160-SB and 161-SB of 1990 by which the High Court has dismissed the appeals filed by the appellant against the judgments and orders of the Sessions Judge dated 3.5.1990 passed in Sessions Case No.71 of 1988 wherein the appellant stood convicted under Section 307 IPC and sentenced to undergo R.I. for three years and to pay a fine of Rs.1500/- and in default of payment of fine to further R.I. for one year and in Sessions Case No. 81 of 1989, wherein appellant stood convicted under Section 27 of the Arms Act and sentenced to undergo RI for one year. However, the High Court reduced the sentence u/S 307 IPC from three years to one year but enhanced the fine from Rs.1500/- to Rs.15,000/-. Both the sentences have been directed to run concurrently.

2. The facts and circumstances giving rise to these appeals are that on 24.6.1987 at about 9.00 A.M. Tasbir Singh (PW.2), an Inspector in a Cooperative Society, was going on his bicycle towards his house in Darsh Nagri Malout. When he reached near th