RAGHUNATH RAY, J. :

Introduction:

1. Five Criminal Appeals preferred by convict-appellants separately against the judgment and order of conviction and sentence dated 16.9.91 passed by the learned Sessions Judge, XIIIth Bench, City Sessions Court at Calcutta in Sessions Trial No. I of June, 1988 were taken up for hearing one after the other. By the judgment of conviction and sentence impugned, the learned trial judge convicted the appellant (1) Baira @ Bhim Singh and (2) Lada @ Dipak @ Pradyut (in short A1 and A2 respectively) for offences under Section 148/307/34 IPC and 302/34 IPC. Accordingly, both of them were sentenced to suffer imprisonment of life and also a fine of Rs. 100/- each in default further R.I. for 14 days. Both of them were further sentenced for R.I. for 7 years and also a fine of Rs. 100/- in default for further R.I. for 14 days in respect of an offence under Section 307/34 IPC. No separate sentence was, however, passed for the offence under Section 148 IPC.

2. The rest three appellants namely, (3) Tapan Roy Karmakar, (4) Sanjay Biswas and (5) Samiran Dhar @ Samir (in short A3, A4 and A5 respectively) were found guilty of offences under Section 147/302/34