JUDGMENT :

C. PRAVEEN KUMAR, J.

1. Heard Dr. Challa Srinivas Reddy, learned counsel for the appellants and the learned Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondent-State through Video Conference operating through Blue-jeans App.

2. A1 and A2 in S.C. No. 489 of 2014 on the file of the Court of the learned Sessions Judge, Guntur, are the appellants herein. Both of them were tried for the offences punishable under Sections 302 read with 34 IPC and 201 read with 34 IPC. By its judgment dated 10.07.2015, the learned Sessions Judge convicted and sentenced the accused to suffer imprisonment for life and to pay fine of Rs. 2000/- each, in default, to suffer rigorous imprisonment for two months each for the offence punishable under Section 302 read with 34 IPC. They were also convicted and sentenced to suffer rigorous imprisonment for three years and also to pay a fine of Rs. 1000/- each, in default, to suffer rigorous imprisonment for one month each for the offence punishable under Section 201 read with 34 IPC. The substantive sentences were directed to run concurrently.

3. The facts, as culled out from the evidence of the prosecution witnesses, are as follows:

On 19.07.2013 at 04:00 p.m. whi