Sunil Kumar Garg, J.-All the abovementioned four appeals files by the accused appellants from jail are being decided by this common judgment as all of them have been preferred against the common judgment and order dated 112.1999 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge No. 2, Bikaner in Sessions Case No. 5 7/97 by which he convicted the accused appellants for the offence under sections 396, 460 and 461 IPC and sentenced each of them in the following manner-

Name of accused appellants Convicted under section Sentence awarded

1. Deepak 2. Ummalo 3. Sanwal Das 4. Prasanto396 IPC Imprisonment for life and a fine of Rs. 100/-, in default of payment of fine, to further undergo simple imprisonment for one month.

460 IPC Ten years SI and to pay a fine of Rs. 100/-, in default of payment of fine, to further undergo SI for one month. 461 IPC One year SI and to pay a fine of Rs. 50/-, in default of payment of fine, to further undergo SI for 15 days. All the substantive sentences were ordered to run concurrently.

2. It may be stated here that in the alleged incident, there were five accused persons and since one of the accused, namely, Dharma Phukan was child at the relevant time