A.I.S. Cheema, J.

1. Criminal Appeal Nos.208/2010, 170/2010 and 192/2010 have been filed by accused who were tried before the Ad-hoc Additional Sessions Judge, Beed in Sessions Case No.22/2009 and were convicted on 21.4.2010. Two of the accused persons involved (here respondents in Criminal Appeal No.235/2012) in the same incident were absconding and after they were apprehended, they were tried vide Sessions Case No.76/2010 before the Additional Sessions Judge, Beed and were acquitted. Thus, the State filed Criminal Appeal No.235/2012. Appellant/ accused Shriram, who had jointly filed Criminal Appeal No. 208/2010, was granted leave to file separate appeal and thus, he filed Criminal Appeal No.170/2012. By this common judgment, we are disposing of all these appeals.

2. Unless mentioned otherwise, we will refer to witnesses and documents from Sessions Case No.22/2009.

3. In brief, the case of prosecution is as under: Deceased Sandipan Namdeo Jadhav was residing with his brothers Ram and Keshav and his mother Laxmibai, at Subhash Colony, Peth, Beed. He was District President of Rashtrawadi Congress Seva Dal. His mother Laxmibai had been elected as member of Municipal Council