JUDGMENT

Navneet Kumar, J.—This appeal is preferred against the Judgment of Conviction dated 31.07.2003 and order of sentence dated 01.08.2003 passed by the learned Additional District & Sessions Judge, FTC No.VI, Jmashedpur in S.T. No. 30 of 1997, arising out of Mango P.S. Case No.88 of 1996, corresponding to G.R. no.763 of 1996 whereby and wherein the accused appellant has been convicted for the offence punishable under Sections 342/324/307/34 of the Indian Penal Code and further sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for six months under sections 342/34, three years under Sections 307/34 of IPC and two years rigorous imprisonment under Sections 324/34 of IPC and further directed to run all the awarded sentence concurrently.

2. The allegations against the appellant arose in the wake of the fardbeyan dated 13.4.1996 of informant Susanto Kumar Dutta who was the Manager of a Crusher Machine of Ashok Singh. He stated that on every Saturday, wages to labours were usually paid and on dated 13.04.1996 at about 3.30 pm, when the wages was paid to the labourers of the said Crusher, the accused-appellant Simol Murmu with Bhujali, Dilip Besra with Chaku (Knife) and Sushil Besra with