JUDGMENT :

M.R. Anitha, J.

1. Appellants are accused Nos.1 to 3, 5 and 7 in S.C.No.315/2008 on the files of Additional Sessions Court-II, Palakkad.

2. Prosecution case is that accused 1 to 7 hatched a criminal conspiracy in the evening of 29.10.2007 at BJP party office near Nilampathi bridge at Kadukkamkunnam to do away with the deceased Gopalakrishnan and Raveendran out of previous enmity and political feud. For that they formed themselves into an unlawful assembly armed with deadly weapons and in prosecution of the common object of the assembly rioted with deadly weapons. They got information of the deceased persons attending the marriage party of PW16 Radhakrishnan and 4th accused directed the 6th accused to wait near Mukkei temple to inform the other accused about the movements of deceased persons over phone. As agreed, 6th accused intimated, the deceased persons coming out of the marriage reception on KL-09L/1972 motorcycle through Nilampathy bridge. Accordingly when the deceased were coming on the motorcycle and reached near the pillar on the northern side of Nilampathy bridge at about 6.45 p.m, accused persons in prosecution of the common object of the assembly, wrongfully rest