Hon’ble Ramesh Sinha, J.—This appeal has been filed against the judgment and order dated 21.9.1981 passed by IInd Additional Session Judge, Bulandshahar in Session Trial No. 530 of 1980 convicting the appellants under Sections 147, 307, 149 and 354/149 I.P.C. and sentencing them to undergo one year rigorous imprisonment, five years rigorous imprisonment and 1 and 1/2 years respectively which was ordered to be run concurrently.

2. The prosecution case in brief is that on 18.3.1977 at about 2 p.m. Smt. Chandrawati P.W.1 alongwith her brothers Rambhool and Ghanshyam was getting the crop of her field stored after being harvested and when she reached near the culvert of canal distributory with the bundles of the harvested crop, she was stopped by the three accused alongwith Ramesh, Radhey, Sardar, Basdeo of her village and Ram Saran of village Pratappur, police station Javan, District Aligarh, who were armed with lathis, spears and Sankhi (a sharp pointed fork like instrument). They attacked on her, when her brothers came to her rescue, they too were beaten by lathi, spear and ‘Daranti’ (a type of sickle for harvesting crop). Thereafter, she was dragged into a field where she wa