Kumarayya, J.-Mr. Luther, the Sub-Inspector of Police of Banganapalle, who was awakened from slumber at his residence near the police-lines by the appealing cry for police help at his window on the mid-night of 17th December, 1955, opened the shutter of the window and directed the party concerned to go to the police station nearby when he received gun-shot wounds from near the window as a result of which he reeled back speechless and succumbed to the wounds within a few moments. The voice that awakened him was unfamiliar and the figure that fired the shot was unnoticed. The C.I.D. Police took up investigation into its hands, and ten persons were arrested and charge-sheeted on 4th January, 1956, for having entered into criminal conspiracy and murdered the deceased. Out of these one Bandi Naganna turned approver on 17th January, 1956 and was examined as P.W. 7. The learned Sessions Judge, Kurnool Division, acquitted accused 5 to 9 of all the charges but convicted accused 1 to 4 for various offences. All the four accused were convicted under section 120-B, Indian Penal Code, and sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment. A-2 was also convicted under section 302, Indian Penal Code,

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