JUDGMENT :

Ratnaker Bhengra, J.

Heard Mr. Pramod Kumar, the learned counsel for the appellants as well as Mrs. Vandana Bharti, the learned APP for the State.

2. Report of Superintendent of Police, Koderma, vide memo no. 51 dated 01-02-2020 has been received stating that the Appellant no. 1 Jobraj Mahto has died and letter to this effect of mukhiya of village-Badaki Dhamrai, Block-Chandwara, District-Koderma has been annexed. Hence, appeal of Appellant no. 1 Jobraj Mahto, stands abated.

3. Both the criminal appeals are preferred against the judgment of conviction and the order of sentence, both dated 16.04.2010, passed by the learned 1st Additional Sessions Judge, Koderma in Sessions Trial No. 446 of 1998, whereby and whereunder, all the appellants were convicted under Sections 147, 341 and 323 of the Penal Code, 1860 and the appellant Basudeo Mahto was further convicted under sections 324, 326 and 307 of the Penal Code, 1860. All the appellants were sentenced to undergo SI for one month each under Section 341 of the Penal Code, 1860; RI for one year each for the offence under Section 323 of the Penal Code, 1860 and RI for one year each for the offence under Section 147 of the Penal Cod