Lodh, J.

This petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 has been projected to quash the order to suffer multiple sentences of life imprisonment consecutively.

The solitary issue to be decided here is:

When multiple sentences of life imprisonment are awarded, whether the same would run consecutively or concurrently ?

2. Briefly stated, the appellant Sri Parshuram @ Pashuram Reang, was convicted in ST 37(ST/B) of 1999 and sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life under Section 364-A of IPC and also directed to pay a fine of Rs.5,000/-. He was also convicted under Section 27 of the Arms Act and sentenced to undergo R.I for (5)five years by the learned Additional Sessions Judge (Sri S.C. Das, as he then was) Belonia, South Tripura on 03.01.2000. The appellant had preferred an appeal which was numbered as Crl Appl. (J) 48 of 2008 and was acquitted on 24.08.2012. While the appellant was undergoing imprisonment again he was tried in case No. ST 48 (ST/B) of 1999 for committing offence under Section 364-A, 302, 201 of IPC. Thereafter, by a judgment of