Padmanabhan Nair, J.

Accused Nos.1 and 4 in S.C. No. 146/01 on the file of the Additional Sessions Court (Adhoc-II, Fast Track), Thalassery, are the appellants in Crl. Appeal No. 1599 of 2003. Accused Nos. 2,3 and 6 in the above said case are the appellants in Crl.A.1685 of 2003. Crl. Appeal No. 800 of 2004 is filed by the sate challenging the acquittal of the 5th accused in the said case. The mother of the deceased (K.T. Jayakrishnan Master) has filed Crl.R.P.No. 573 of 2004 challenging the acquittal of the 5th accused. The Investigating Officer who was examined as P.W.30 in the case has filed Crl.M.C.No.5125 of 2003 for expunging the adverse remarks made against him and also to vacate the direction issued by the learned Sessions Judge to the Government to take action against him. Since all the appellants were found guilty of the offence under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code and sentence to death, the learned Sessions Judge referred the case for confirmation under section 366 of the code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, and the same was numbered as D.S.R.1 of 2004. The Death Sentence Reference was also heard along with the Criminal Appeals and Criminal Revision Petitio