JUDGMENT :

K.Suresh Reddy, J.

All the eight accused in S.C.No. 28 of 2012 on the file of the Court of learned IV Additional District and Sessions Judge, Nellore (for short, 'the trial Court'), filed the present criminal appeal before this Court. During pendency of the appeal, accused Nos. 2 and 8 are reported to have died and therefore the appeal against accused Nos. 2 and 8 is dismissed as abated. All the accused were tried by the trial Court under the following five charges:

I charge was under Section 147 IPC against all the accused;

II charge was under Section 148 against all the accused;

III charge was under Section 341 IPC against all the accused;

IV charge was under Section 324 IPC against all the accused;

and

V charge was under Section 302 read with Section 149 IPC against all the accused.

2. Substance of the charges is that on 28-02-2011 at about 8 p.m., all the accused armed with deadly weapons, with the common object, formed into an unlawful assembly and intercepted one Chiramana Haribabu @ Hari (hereinafter referred to as 'the deceased') in front of the shop of P.W.4 while he was going on a motorcycle and hacked him with axes and knives causing his death and in the said process,