JUDGMENT

Deepak Gupta, J.

These appeals by the victim as well as by the State are directed against the judgment dated 24.07.2013 whereby the High Court allowed the appeal of the accused and set aside the judgment of the trial court whereby the respondents herein were convicted for various offences punishable under Sections 148, 302/149 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC for short) and Section 25 of the Arms Act, and sentenced to various terms including life imprisonment.

2. We do not intend to give detailed facts of the case. The gist of the case is that on 25.05.2005, accused Jagir Singh had caused injuries to Palwinder Kaur, who is the sister-in-law of Prem Singh (PW-1). Prem Singh (PW-1) had gone to the milk chilling centre at Lopoke, because his father was contesting election being contested there. At about 3.15 PM, Prem Singh (PW-1), along with Major Singh (PW-2) proceeded to Civil Hospital at Lopoke to see his sister-in-law, Palwinder Kaur. Satinder Pal Singh (since deceased) was already there in the Hospital.

3. When these two witnesses reached the Hospital, they found a Tata Sumo vehicle bearing registration no. PB-02-AL-5478 was parked outside the Hospital. Accused Sardul Singh ali