JUDGMENT :

S.K. Medhi, J.

The present appeals have been preferred against the common judgment and order dated 11.10.2018 passed by the learned Sessions Judge, Yupia, West Sessions Divisions, Papumpare district, Arunachal Pradesh in Sessions Case No. 41/2014 (YPA) convicting the accused appellants under Section 364-A/34 of the Indian Penal Code. While Crl.Appln. No. 19 (AP) / 2018 is preferred by Shri Tapan Morang @ Topon Morang and Shri Santanu Morang, Crl.Appln. No. 01 (AP) / 2019 is preferred by Shri Rohit Morang and Shri Deep Jyoti Morang. By the impugned judgment and order, all the appellants have been convicted under Section 364-A IPC and sentenced to undergo life imprisonment and to pay a fine of Rs.5,000/- in default of payment of fine to undergo further RI for one year.

2. Before going to the impugned judgment, the brief facts of the case may be stated in the following manner.

3. The criminal law was set into motion by lodging of an FIR before the Naharlagun Police Station on 14.10.2013 by one Koj Laji (PW 1) alleging, interalia, that one person named Rohit who was the former Counter Operator at Naharlagun had taken his Tata Sumo bearing No. AR-01-D-0608 on hire on 14.10.2010.