JUDGMENT

Usha Mehra. J.- Manpreet Singh and Prabhpreet Singh were committed to the Court of Sessions on the charge that on 21st April. 1999 they committed the murder of Raj Kumar Vajpayee an employee of one Rajiv Bansal a share broker. Charges under Section 302/201 Indian Penal Code (hereinafter referred to as the IPC) were framed against them. The learned Additional Sessions Judge came to the conclusion that the prosecution had proved the entire link in the chain of circumstances leading to no hypothesis other than that of guilt. He convicted them under Section 302 as well as under Section 201 IPC and sentenced' them to life imprisonment and further to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of three years under Section 201 IPC and a fine of Rs. 10.000/- in default to further undergo R.I. For five months. The sentences were to run concurrently and benefit of Section 428 of the Code of Criminal Procedure was accorded to them.

2. Aggrieved by the order of conviction and sentence, appeal has been preferred, by the appellants primarily on the ground that the prosecution miserably failed to discharge its duty in linking, in the chain the circumstance that injuries No.2 & 3 could be