JUDGMENT :

M. R. Shah, J.

1. Feeling aggrieved and dissatisfied with the impugned judgment and order dated 01.04.2011 passed by the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh in Criminal Appeal No.645 of 2004 and Criminal Appeal No.563 of 2004 by which the Division Bench of the High Court has dismissed the said appeals preferred by the accused and has confirmed the conviction and sentence passed by the learned Trial Court convicting the accused Amrik Singh and Subhash Chander for the offences punishable under Section 302 read with Section 34 and Section 392 of the IPC, the accused Amrik Singh and Subhash Chander have preferred the present appeals.

2. That the appellant herein was charged along with one Subhash Chander and Pritpal Singh for committing robbery and murdering one Gian Chand (deceased) during the course of the robbery. As per the prosecution case, the deceased Gian Chand, one Munshi Ram, father of the deceased along with the complainant Des Raj (PW1) were proceeding from the office of Sub-registrar District Fazilka and after dropping of the father of the deceased at the local bus stand, they proceeded towards their village. It was further alleged that on route to their