Aditya Kumar Trivedi, J.(Oral)

Cr. Appeal no. 200 of 2015 wherein, Shital Das Yadav happens to be the sole appellant and Cr. Appeal no. 203 of 2015 wherein, Tunni Beldar and Sudhir Beldar happen to be the appellants have been filed against the common judgment of conviction dated 07.04.2015 and sentence dated 10.04.2015 passed by learned Special Judge, Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes (prevention of Atrocities) Act, Nawada in connection with Special (SC/ST) case no. 06 of 2003 convicting all the appellants for an offence punishable under Sections 323/34, 341/34, 316/34 of Indian Penal Code and each one has been directed to under rigorous imprisonment for six months, simple imprisonment for one month, rigorous imprisonment for five years as well as fine appertaining to Rs. 10,000/- and in default thereof, to undergo simple imprisonment for three months respectively under each distinct head as indicated above on account thereof, have been heard together and are being decided by the common judgment.

2. Succinctly, the prosecution case, as is evident from the fardbeyan of PW5, Akhru Manjhi (informant) recorded on 19.09.1996 at about 1.30 pm by the O/C of Dhamaul P.S. in prese