IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH :: AMARAVATI TUESDAY, THE TWENTY SEVENTH DAY OF JANUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY SIX SPECIAL DIVISION BENCH PRESENT HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K. SURESH REDDY AND HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE A.HARI HARANADHA SARMA CRIMINAL APPEAL No.2435 of 2018 JUDGMENT: (Per Justice K. Suresh Reddy Both the accused in S.C.No.150 of 2017 on the file of the Court of II Additional District and Sessions Judge, Hindupur, are the appellants. They were tried by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Hindupur under the following two (2) charges.

(i) The first charge was under Section 302 IPC against A1 and A2 and (ii) The second charge was under Section 201 IPC against A1 and A2.

2. Substance of the charge is that on 16.09.2016 at about 8.30 p.m., at the sand heap stored in the land bearing Survey No.369-7 belonging to A. Lingamma, situated near Yelakalagutta behind Chinnampalli High School of Puttaparthi Town, A.1 picked up a quarrel with his brother Tulasi Thakur (hereinafter referred to as “the deceased”), and threw him on the ground, while A.2 caught hold of the hands and legs of the deceased, A.1 cut the throat of the deceased with a knife and A.2 beat the deceased on his le