A.C. Upadhyay, J.

1. Heard Mr. Mr. S. D. Choudhury, learned Counsel appearing for the appellants. Also heard Mr. A. Ghosh, learned Additional Public Prosecutor, for the respondent-State of Tripura.

2. This appeal is directed against the judgment and order dated 20.05.2002 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, South Tripura, Udaipur, in Case No. ST.08 (ST/U) of 1993, whereby the accused appellants were convicted under Section 148/324/304 Part-II read with Section 149 of the Indian Penal Code (for short 'IPC') and were sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year under Section 148 of IPC and further sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year under Section 324 of IPC read with Section 149 and also to pay a fine of Rs.1,000/-, in default, to suffer further rigorous imprisonment of three months, and they were further sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for five years with a fine of Rs.5,000/-, in default, to suffer rigorous imprisonment for one year more, for commission of offence under Section 304 Part-II read with Section 149 of IPC.

3. The prosecution case arose on the basis of a first information report lodged by Shri Sankar Bhowmik on 11.01.19