JUDGMENT :

1. Vide order dated 14.03.2023, the Co-ordinate Bench of this Court directed the learned Public Prosecutor to call for the whereabouts and present status of the accused appellants from the concerned Police Station.

2. In compliance of the order dated 14.03.2023, the learned Public Prosecutor submitted the death certificates of accused appellant No.2-Mool Singh s/o Bachan Singh and the accused appellant No.4-Smt. Inder Kanwar w/o Mool Singh.

3. Accordingly, the criminal appeal qua accused appellant No.2 Mool Singh s/o Bachan Singh and the accused appellant No.4-Smt. Inder Kanwar w/o Mool Singh stands abated.

4. So far as the criminal appeal filed by rest of accused appellants i.e. accused appellants No.1 and 3 namely; Matadeen Singh and Sumer Singh, is concerned, same is being heard and finally decided by this Judgment.

5. The present criminal appeal has been preferred by the accused-appellants against the judgment of conviction and sentence dated 27.01.1994 passed by the Court of learned Sessions Judge, Jhunjhunu (for short ‘the learned trial Court’) in Sessions Case No.94/1990, whereby, both the above-named accused appellants have been convicted and sentenced as under:-

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