( 1 ) IN the mid summer night of April 27,1981 death stalked the home of P. Ws. 4 and 6 (Parents of deceased Bablu @ Sujit) when the harbinger of death (read appellant No. 3) called the deceased and in response to whose call he went to meet his tryst with death at the hands of the accused.

( 2 ) PERHAPS they could sense death, which made his elder sibling (P. W. 1), his widow (P. W. 2) and his parents (P. Ws. 4 and 6) trail his last journey from his home.

( 3 ) IN course of such trail they saw how the said Bablu @ Sujit fell prey to the knife blows of the appellant No. 4.

( 4 ) IT is what they have seen and have done forms the spectre of the prosecution case.

( 5 ) IT is what we have found in the evidence and materials in the kaleidoscope of the submissions at the Bar and the authorities falls for our decision in this appeal.

( 6 ) WHILE we proceed to trace back the gory details we have to set the factual matrix in some details to go the whole hog of the matter.

( 7 ) PURSUANT to the chargesheet submitted by P. W. 22, Sushil Kumar chakraborty against the present appellants along with one Hansi Rani Sarkar (since acquitted), wife of P. W. 1 they were arrayed