JUDGMENT

M.K. Mukherjee, J. - The eighteen appellants herein along with ten others were indicted for an incident that took place on November 17, 1985 in village Lawa Khurd within the Police Station of Bahadurgarh in which three persons were killed and several injured. Against one of them a charge under Section 6 of the Terrorist and Disruptive' Activities (Prevention) Act, 1985 ('Act' for short) read with Sections 25 and 27 of the Arms Act, 1959 was also framed and therefore they were tried by a Designated Court constituted under Section 9 of the Act. On conclusion of the trial, the Court, while recording an order of acquittal against ten co-accused in respect of all the charges levelled against them, convicted the appellants under Sections 148, 302/149 (three counts), 326/149, 325/149, 324/149 and 323/49 of the Indian Penal Code (I.P.C. for short). Besides, two of the appellants were convicted under Section 307 I.P.C. (two counts) and the remaining sixteen were convicted for the same offence with the aid of Section 149 I.P.C. For the convictions so recorded the appellants were sentenced to different terms of imprisonment, including life. The above order of conviction and sentence