PRAKASH CHANDRA JAISWAL, J.

1. Heard Mr. Md. Soban Asghar, learned counsel for the appellants and Mr. Ajay Mishra, learned APP for the State on this criminal appeal.

2. This criminal appeal has been preferred against the Judgment and Order of conviction dated 10.02.2012 and Order of sentence dated 15.02.2012 passed by Additional Sessions Judge, F.T.C.-II, Madhubani in Sessions Trial No. 215 of 2010 arising out of Rajnagar P.S. Case No. 233 of 2009 whereby the learned trial court acquitted the accused Mosmat Munni Devi and Sudhir Mehtar of the charges levelled against them and convicted the accused Dilip Mehtar and Manoj Mehtar for the offence punishable under Sections 147, 148 and 302/149 of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced them to undergo R.I. for life under Section 302/149 of the Indian Penal Code. However, no separate sentence was passed under Sections 147 and 148 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. Factual matrix of the case is that Rajnagar P.S. Case No. 233 of 2009 was instituted under Sections 147, 148, 149, 307 and 302 of the Indian Penal Code against the accused Manoj Mehtar, Gulten Mehtar, Sudhir Mehtar, Chandan Mehtar, Munni Devi and Dilip Mehtar on the basis of the