JUDGMENT :

1. The present three appeals under Section 374(2) Cr.P.C. have been instituted against the common judgement and order dated 18.10.2021 passed by the learned Special Judge (MP/MLA)/Additional Sessions Judge, Court No.3, Faizabad in Special Case No.3012 of 2018 (State Vs. Phool Chandra Yadav and others), arising out of Case Crime No.24 of 1992, Police Station Ram Janam Bhumi, District Faizabad, whereby the learned trial court has convicted and sentenced the accused-appellants as under:-

U/s 420 I.P.C. three years imprisonment and fine of Rs.6,000/-each and in default of payment of fine, eighteen days additional simple imprisonment; and

U/s 468 I.P.C. five years imprisonment and fine of Rs.8,000/-each and in default of payment of fine, twenty days additional simple imprisonment.

U/s 471 I.P.C. two years imprisonment and fine of Rs.5,000/- each and in default of payment of fine, fifteen days additional simple imprisonment.

Facts:-

2. The prosecution case, in brief, is that the Principal of K.S. Saket Postgraduate College, Faizabad, Sri Yaduvansh Ram Tripathi gave a complaint to the Senior Superintendent of Police, Faizabad on 16.2.1992 alleging that in his previous letter dated 1