ORDER :

Sanjay Prasad, J.

This Criminal Revision Application has been filed on behalf of the petitioners, namely Mahavir Mahto, Mahendra Mahto and Rajesh Mandal @ Rajesh Prasad, challenging the order dated 08.05.2019 passed in S.T. No. 328 of 2018, by Shri Kaushal Kishore Jha, learned Additional Sessions Judge-III, Hazaribagh by which the learned Additional Sessions Judge has rejected the discharge petition filed under Section 227 Cr.P.C. on behalf of the petitioners.

2. Initially five petitioners had filed this Criminal Revision Application. Later on, Original Petitioner No. 3, namely Nand Kishore Mahto @ Nand Kishore Prasad and Original Petitioner No. 5, namely Chotu Prasad had withdrawn the revision applications on their behalf on 16.02.2023. The name of Original Petitioner No. 3 and Original Petitioner No. 5 had been deleted on 22.02.2023 as the learned counsel for the petitioners sought permission to delete their names on 16.02.2023.

3. The prosecution case, in brief, is that the informant had gone to attend the Panchayati on 05.6.2010 at Village Karwa and he along with his brother Arjun Sao and one Ful Chand Sao and nephew Santosh Kumar had attended the Panchayati, however, due t