JUDGMENT :

All these Criminal Appeals have been filed by the accused/appellant in the respective appeals, seeking to set aside the judgment of conviction rendered by the LVIII Addl. City Civil and Sessions Judge (CCH-59), Bengaluru City, in S.C.No.428/2013 dated 28.10.2020 and to thereby acquit the accused/appellant in the respective appeals of the offences leveled against them. Since all these appeals arising out of the same judgment in S.C.No.428/2013, they are heard together and are disposed of by this common judgment.

2. The appeal in Crl.A.No.118/2021 has been preferred by appellants/Accused Nos.1 to 3 namely, Rangaswamy @ Ranga/Accused No.1, R. Shankar/Accused No.2 and Raghavendra @ Raghu/Accused No.3, challenging the judgment of conviction dated 28.10.2020 and order of sentence dated 29.10.2020 rendered by the Trial Court in S.C.No.428/2013. By the said judgment, the Trial Court has convicted the present appellants/Accused Nos.1 to 3 for offences punishable under Sections 120-B, 143, 147, 148, 302 and read with Section 149 of the IPC. Apart from the same, Accused No.1 has been convicted for offences punishable under Section 150 read with Section 149 of the IPC. Further, Accuse