JUDGMENT

Farooq Hasan, J. - This criminal appeal arises out of a judgment of the Sessions Judge, Bharatpur, whereby each of the appellants (Ramjilal, Hotilal & Deviram) has been convicted & sentenced as under:

U/s 302/34, I.P.C

Life Imprisonment.

U/s 323, I.P.C.

Four months' R.I.

Briefly put, the facts may be epitomized as under:

On 14.9.1987 at 3.20p.m. Sahab Singh, ASI, In charge of Out-post Police, Mathura Gate, Bharatpur recorded a statement (Parcha Beyan) Bharatpur, wherein it had been given out that during her visit to her father's place of abode at village Raina and as soon as she arrived at there, she had seen some altercation being taken place in between her father, Chhidi (deceased), her sister, Saroj, brother-in-law, Veero (Saroj's husband), and Deviram, Ramjilal, Hoti, Dorgi & their women, in addition to maar-peet in between them, and that, seeing her father sustaining assaults, she fell down upon him by embracement, but then, Hoti gave lathi blow upon her head, besides that, he having a 'Daranti' also in his hand, gave its blow on her left hand, whereas, Devi gave a lathi blow on her left leg below the knee; but wife of Ramjilal gave lathi blow at the palm of her rig