K. C. DAS GUPTA, J.

( 1 ) THE appellants were tried by a special Tribunal constituted under the Tribunals of Criminal Jurisdiction Act, 1952, (West Bengal Act 14 of 1952 ). The learned Judge who presided over the Tribunal framed charges against all the appellants of conspiracy to commit offences under Sections 302, 324, 342, and 427, Penal Code and Sections 3 and 5, Explosive Substances Act and Section 19 (f), Indian Arms Act of 1878. Seven of the appellants together with one Nepal Chandra Mazumdar who has been acquitted were also charged with specific offence under S. 802, Penal Code for having intentionally caused the death of F. G, Turnbull, a foreman of the Structural Section of Messrs, Jessop and Co. at Dum Dum. One appellant, Simon Bam was charged with a specific offence under Section 302, Penal Code for having intentionally caused the death of A. Dwyer, an employee of Messrs. Jessop and Co. The seven appellants who were charged with the specific offence of murder of F. G. Turnbul were also charged with a specific offence under Section 201, Penal Code on the allegation that they had caused evidence of the murder to disappear by removing the dead body of Turnbull and throwing

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