JUDGMENT :

SANJAY K. AGRAWAL, J.

1. Regard being had to the similitude of the questions of facts and law involved, as all these appeals are clubbed together being arising out of a common judgment dated 31.08.2013 passed in Sessions Trial No. 64 of 2011 ( State of Chhattisgarh vs. Narayan and Others ) by the Court of learned Additional Sessions Judge, Mungeli, District Bilaspur (C.G.) these appeals have been clubbed together, heard together and are being decided by this common judgment.

2. Criminal Appeals No. 937/2013, 947/2013, 966/2013, 969/2013, 970/2013, 1029/2013 and 1068/2013 are preferred under Section 374(2) of Cr.P.C. questioning the impugned judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 31.08.2013, whereby following 16 appellants-accused persons have been convicted for the offences and sentenced to undergo as under: