JUDGMENT :

SADHANA S. JADHAV, J.

1. The appellants herein are convicted for the offence punishable under section 302 read with section 34 of the Indian Penal Code and each of the accused is sentenced to suffer R.I. for life and to pay fine of Rs. 500/- in default to suffer R.I. for two years. The appellants are further convicted of the offence punishable under section 201 read with section 34 of the Indian Penal Code and each of them is sentenced to suffer R.I. for 5 years and to pay fine of Rs. 500/- in default to suffer further R.I. for six months by the Additional Sessions Judge, Greater Bombay vide Judgment and Order dated 7.7.2010 in Sessions Case No. 807 of 2006. Hence, this appeal.

2. Such of the facts necessary for the decision of these appeals are as follows:

(a) On 21.5.2006 one Nurul Hasan Khan lodged a report with Trombay Police Station alleging therein that his uncle Nadir Khan owned Shop No. 24 in E-Sector of Chita Camp, which is given on rent to one Akbar Khan who runs a grocery shop in the name and style of Khan store. One Suresh Murav works in the said shop alongwith Dilshad, brother-in-law of Akbar Khan. Dilshad was also residing in the said shop on the mezzanine floo