JUDGMENT

Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla, J.

1. This appeal by the eight accused who were proceeded against in Crime No.397/97 in Sessions Case No.35/1998 in the Court of Second Additional Sessions Judge, District Kannauj, were charged and convicted for offences falling under Section 302 read with 149, 307 read with 149, as well as for offences under Sections 452, 148 and 147 IPC. All the accused were convicted and inflicted with the punishment of life imprisonment for the offence under Section 302 read with 149 IPC, 5 year rigorous imprisonment for the offence under Section 307 read with 149 IPC, 1 year rigorous imprisonment for the offence under Section 452 IPC, 6 months rigorous imprisonment for the offence under Section 148 IPC and 3 months rigorous imprisonment for the offence under Section 147 IPC.

2. The case of the prosecution as projected before the Court below was that 7 days prior to the date of occurrence there was some dispute between the children of the parties of the victim and the accused. A goat belonging to the accused persons stated to have gone into the maize field of the deceased Zahiruddin and when the son of the said deceased objected to that, he was caught by