JUDGMENT

Vishnu Sahai. J. - Since these three connected criminal appeals arise out of the same set of facts and a common impugned judgment, we are disposing them of by one judgment:

2. Through these criminal appeals, the appellants challenge the judgment and order dated 4th January, 1996, passed by the Additional Sessions Judge, Pandharpur in Sessions Case No. 44 of 1995, whereby they have been convicted and sentenced in the manner stated hereinafter:

(i)         All the appellants u/ss 452 r/w 149 I.P.C. to undergo 3 years R. I.

(ii) Appellants Tulsiram Kambale Ramchandra Kambale, Ganesh Shirsat, Ashok Waghmare, Dnyaneshwar Naikwadi, Anil Mane and Sunil Mane to undergo life imprisonment u/s 302 r/w 149 I.P.C. and

(iii) appellants Tulsiram Kamble Anil Mane and Rajendra Kothalkar' to undergo two years R.I. for the offence u/s 324 r/w 149 I.P.C.

The sentences of the appellants were ordered to run concurrently.

3. In short the prosecution case runs as under:

The appellants belong to the Koli community and are inter-related, Between them on one hand and the informant Rajabhau Kamble (P.W. 7). Dattatraya Kamble (P.W. 8), Bhaskar Bhinge (P.W. 11), his brother Pandurang Bhinge, Mahesh