JUDGMENT :

Nalin Kumar Srivastava, J.

1. Present criminal appeal has been preferred by appellants Amar Singh and Panjabi against the judgement and order dated 6.4.2012 passed by Additional District & Sessions Judge, Court No.1, Kannauj in Sessions Trial No.181 of 2011 (State vs. Amar Singh and another) convicting the appellants for the offence punishable under Sections 302, 394 and 307 IPC and sentencing them to undergo rigorous life imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 10,000/-, ten years rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 5,000/-and seven years rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 4,000, respectively, with stipulation of default clause. All the sentences were directed to run concurrently.

2. Brief facts of the case, as culled out from the record, are that informant Mijaji Lal son of Ramadin Yadav, resident of village Mansukhpurwa, Majra Bahosi, Police Station Indergarh, District Farrukhabad gave a verbal information on 28.12.1989 at about 20.30 hours at Police Station Indergarh that on 28.12.1989, his brothers Mewa Lal and Prahlad and nephew Veer Singh had gone to sow wheat in