JUDGMENT :- The appellant Mangat and his son Kanwla have been convicted of an offence punishable under the first part of Section 304, P. C. and sentenced to ten years' rigorous imprisonment by an Additional Sessions Judge of Meerut. The prosecution case was that, while Khazan deceased was sitting and smoking in front of his house, near a well, on 11-9-1963, at about 4 p.m., in village Silana, the two appellants, together with Prakash and Jadubira, two other sons of Mangat who were tried together with the appellants but acquitted, came along and attacked Khazan with lathis. On the intervention of Jagpal (P. W. 1), and Jagdish (P. W. 5), the two sons of Khazan, and Khanno (P. W. 6), the wife of Khazan, these three were also beaten. The injuries on the body of Khazan were serious and resulted in his death.

2. On 13-9-1963, Dr. Nahar Singh (P. W. 13), performed the post-mortem examination on the body of Khazan, and he found 14 injuries which included two very serious injuries on the head causing internal fractures on the parietal bones. There were also other injuries on the shoulder and the chest showing that the head was aimed at. The cause of death was put down as shock and haemorrh

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