JUDGMENT

M.K. Mukherjee, J.- These two appeals have been heard together as they stem from related incidents and this judgment will dispose of both of them. Facts leading to these appeals and relevant for their disposal are as under.

2. Teja Singh (since deceased) was a resident of village Manakpur under Fetehabad Police Station where, he used to live with his family which included his brother Harnek Singh (P.W.7) and his (P.W.7's) son Hardev Singh (P.W.8). In front of their house lived appellants Jaswant Singh and Bikar Singh, who are the sons of Inder Singh. About a year before the incidents with which we are concerned in these appeals, an unrelenting quarrel started between Harnek Singh on the one hand and Jaswant Singh and Bikar Singh on the other regarding the use of the public passage in between their houses which compelled the local police to initiate security proceedings under Section 107 Cr. P.C. against both the parties.

3. On October 27, 1986, Harnek Singh, Teja Singh and Hardev Singh had gone to Fetehabad to attend Court as, the security proceeding instituted against them was fixed for hearing on that day. After attending Court they came to the bus stand to catch the bus