Mridula Bhatkar, J.

Criminal Appeal No. 1077 of 2007 is filed by accused nos. 1 to 3 against conviction. Criminal Appeal No. 948 of 2014 is filed by State against acquittal. Criminal Revision Application No. 622 of 2007 is preferred by the complainant.

2. The incident of assault has taken place on 7th July, 2004. It is the case of the prosecution that deceased Vilas Jadhav residing with his wife/complainant Vibhuti, mother Gangabai and other family members at Ramnagar Digha. He was a social worker. He was working for political party, namely, Rashtravadi Congress party. He used to take initiative to celebrate Ganesh festival and he was a President of Ganpati mandal in that area. However, in the year 2002-03, accused no. 7 Vijay Chougule, who was the leader of Rashtravadi Congress party, told him not to celebrate his traditional Ganesh festival and asked him to work with accused no. 2, as accused no. 2 Sunil Bhosale was celebrating Ganesh festival separately in Ramnagar. However, Vilas Jadhav did not pay heed to this request but celebrated Ganesh festival in the year 2002-03. On this issue, a dispute arose between Vilas Jadhav and Vijay Chougule and his associates. Other accu