1. - D.B. Criminal Appeal No. 245/79 filed by Bholasingh and Balbirsingh, D.B. Criminal Jail appeal No. 246/79 preferred by Bholasingh and D.B. Criminal Jail Appeal No. 247/79 filed by Balbirsingh are directed against one and the same judgment of the learned Additional Sessions Judge No. 2, Hanumangarh whereby Bholasingh and Balbirsingh appellants were convicted under Section 302 IPC and each of them was sentenced to death subject to confirmation thereof by the High Court. The Additional Sessions Judge No. 2, Hanumangarh also has submitted the proceedings before us for confirmation of the sentences of death awarded by him to both the aforesaid appellants. This reference is D.B. Criminal Murder Reference No. 1 of 1979 The State of Rajasthan v. Balbirsingh and Anr. As the murder reference and the three appeals arise out of one and the same judgment of the learned Additional Sessions Judge No. 2 Hanumangarh and as common questions of Jaw and fact do arise for consideration in all of them, they are disposed of together by our one judgment.

2. The prosecution story runs as follows : In the night intervening 25th and 26th June, 1977, Meetsingh and his son Bhagwansingh deceased