U.B. Saha, J.

1. All these three appeals preferred by the five Appellants namely, Shri Subal Deb, Chandan Shil, Chandan Saha, Sajal Das and Shri Bimal Sarkar have arisen from the judgment dated 29-3-2003 passed by the learned Addl. Sessions Judge, Court No. 3, West Tripura, Agartala in Sessions Trial No. 94 (W.T./A) of 2000. By the aforesaid judgment the learned trial Court convicted all the five Appellants under Section 366 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code (for short 'IPC') and sentenced the Appellant Shri Sajal Das to undergo rigorous imprisonment for seven years and to pay a fine of Rs. 10,000/-, i/d to suffer S.I. for three years, the Appellants Subal Deb and Bimal Sarkar to undergo R.I. for five years and to pay a fine of Rs. 5,000/- each, i/d to suffer S.I. for one year six months and the Appellants Chandan Shil and Chandal Saha to undergo R.I. for four years and to pay a fine of Rs. 3,000/- each, i/d to suffer S.I. for six months. Being aggrieved by the aforesaid judgment of conviction and order of sentence, the Appellants preferred the aforesaid appeals respectively.

2. The prosecution case, in short, is that on 27-11-1999 while P.W. 4, Smt. Sankari Das a