S. MURALIDHAR, J.

1. These three appeals are directed against the judgment dated 31st October 2017 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge-02, South District, Saket Courts in Sessions Case No.7165/2016 arising out of FIR No.273/2010 registered at Police Station (“PS”) Saket convicting the three Appellants for offences under Section 302/34 IPC. The appeals also challenge the order on sentence dated 20th December 2017 whereby each of them were sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment (“RI”) for life along with a fine of Rs.5,000/- each and in default of payment of fine, they were to undergo simple imprisonment for three months.

2. The three Appellants, i.e. Naveen Verma (Accused No.1: A-1) (Appellant in Crl. A. No. 249/2018), Chandan (A-2) (Crl. A. No. 362/2018) and Rajesh Chauhan (A-3) (Crl. A. No. 449/2018), were charged as under:

(i) During the intervening night of 26th-27th September 2010, at Press Enclave Road in front of Select City Mall, Saket, the three of them along with Ashish (since deceased) hatched a criminal conspiracy to abduct, loot, and rob persons and thereby, committed the offence punishable under Section 120B IPC. Pursuant to the said conspiracy,