Hari Lal Agrawal, J.

Both these appeals have been heard together as they arise out of the same judgment and, accordingly, they are being disposed of by this judgment. They have been filed by the eight appellants mentioned above against the judgment and order of conviction recorded by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Arrah, convicting them variously. Each of the eight appellants has been convicted under section 302 read with section 149 of the Indian Penal Code for committing the murder of Mahanth Vijayanand Parbat and sentenced to imprisonment for life and also under section 201 of the Indian Penal Code for removing his dead body with the intention of screening themselves from legal punishment. No separate sentence, however, has been awarded for this offence. The three appellants of criminal appeal No. 211 of 1971 and appellant Nos. 1 and 4 of Criminal Appeal No. 197 of 1971 have further been convicted under section 148 and the remaining three appellants, namely, appellant Nos. 2, 3 and 5 under section 147 of the Indian Penal Code, but no separate sentence has been awarded under either of these two sections.

2. All the eight appellants were put on trial before the learned Addit

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