1. - All the accused have preferred a joint appeal before this Court being aggrieved of their conviction under sections 302 or 302/149 and other minor offences of Indian Penal Code and Arms Act by Additional Sessions Judge, Bayana in Sessions Case No. 45/90. The offences under which the appellants were convicted and sentences awarded to them have been detailed out in the judgment of the Trial Court and we need not repeat the same.

2. In brief, the facts of the case are that a written report was made by the complainant Bhoori Singh to the Sub-Inspector at village-Jatpura on 3.5.90. The prosecution case, as disclosed in the report, is that there was a long standing enmity between the members of the complainant party of village Jatpura and the accused persons of village Luhasa. The members of the complainant party are Gujars while the accused persons are Dhakar by caste. It was alleged that accused Ajiram had made a false report against the members of the complainant party about commission of theft in the month of March. Earlier to this, litigations were also pending between them. About the occurrence, it was alleged that hundreds of persons of village Luhasa c