Prasun Kumar Deb, J.

1. All these criminal appeals have arisen out of the judgment and order dated 6-10-1994 and 7-10-1994 passed by Shri S. N. Choudhary, VII Additional Judicial Commissioner, Ranchi, in S. T. No. 262 of 1993 convicting the accused-appellants under Section 364/34, 302/34 of the I.P.C. and also under Section 201/34,I.P.C. along with Section 120-B of the I.P.C. They were sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for life and also to undergo R.I. for seven years under Section 201/34, I.P.C. and sentences were ordered to run concurrently.

2. Prosecution case in brief is that the accused-appellants five in number along with one Kamlesh Kumar, who was also tried alongwith these accused persons jointly and acquitted afterwards made a conspiracy for kidnapping the child of a moneyed person for getting ransom from tha parents and in that process out of some mistake, one boy of 6½ years old Guddu residing with his parents at Harihar Singh Road, PS-Bariatu was kidnapped by the accused persons alongwith Kamlesh Kumar and when the error could be detected, the boy was killed by strangulating him through neck and then the deadbody was thrown into a well in a deserted place calle