( 1 ) THREE unfortunate homicidal deaths were committed between 4-00 P. M. and 4-30 P. M. on 29/08/1983 at Ahmedabad and the appellants of the aforesaid appeals are involved as the per- petrators of them. They were charged in Sessions Case No. 141 of 1983 and were convicted by the learned Additional City Sessions Judge (Court No. 2) Ahmedabad principally for the offence punishable under sec. 302 read with sec. 120b of the Indian Penal Code and accused No. 1 and accused No. 6 were also charged for the offence punishable under sec. 302 of the Indian Penal Code substantively and the accused were further convicted under other sections which we shall deal with in details later in our judgment. We shall refer to the appellants herein as the accused as per their serial number given in the aforesaid Sessions Case.

( 2 ) WE shall refer to the prosecution case in outline as a backdrop in order to put the facts in their proper perspective and also in order to appreciate their inter connection the inter-connection of the accused the conception and the progress of the conspiracy the involvement of the accused therein and lastly to assess the legal effect of all these. The three