Judgment

K. Jayachandra Reddy, J.

1. Original accused Nos. 1 to 4 are the appellants. They have been found guilty under Sections 302 read with 34 Indian Penal Code and sentenced to imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Rs. 2,000/- in default of payment of which to suffer further R-I for one year. The appeal preferred by them was dismissed by the High Court.

2. The accused, the deceased Kesar Singh aged about 90 years and the material witnesses belong to village Minhala Jai Singh in District Amritsar. The appellants are the grandsons of the deceased. The deceased had eight Killas of land out of which he donated four Killas to the appellants and gave remaining four Killas on lease to them. The appellants were insisting that the deceased should make gift of the remaining four Killas also. Chanan Singh P.W. 2 was a distant relative of the deceased belonging to a different village and whenever the deceased used to come to that village for collecting the lease money, he used to stay with P.W. 2. On 30.1.1974 P.W. 2 was going to his house and when he reached near the well he saw all the appellants beating the deceased and two of them sitting on him while the deceased was lying down.