JUDGMENT :

1. These Criminal Appeals have been directed against the judgment and order dated 28.7.2016 passed by the Additional Sessions Judge/Fast Track Court No.1, Agra in Sessions Trial No. 525 of 2013 (Case Crime No. 19 of 2013), P.S. Kheda Rathaur, District Agra convicting and sentencing the appellants under Section 302 I.P.C. for life imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 25,000/- each with stipulation of default clause.

2. Brief facts, as culled out from the record, are that a First Information Report was lodged by the informant, Ram Kishun son of Shri Ram Ratan, resident of Nagla Behari, Police Station Etmaddaula, Agra, at Police Station Khera Rathaur, District Agra with the averments that marriage of her daughter, Smt. Rima Devi, was solemnized with Nathu Ram son of Pahalwan Singh, resident of Nadgawan Mod, District Khera Rathour, on 12.3.2007 according to hindu rites and rituals in which the informant had given sufficient dowry but the in-laws of her daughter, namely, Nathu Ram husband, Pahalwan Singh, father-in-law, Harpyari, mother-in-law, Ashok Kumar, Jeth, Geeta Devi, Jethani, Sm