JUDGMENT

Reserved on: 09.09.2024 Pronounced On:17.09.2024 Per Gautam Kumar Choudhary, J. Both these appeals arise out of the common judgment of conviction and sentence by which appellants have been convicted and sentenced under Section 302 /34 of the IPC.

2. Informant of the case is Village Headman (Munda), Lawrence Purty. As per his statement given to police on 23.06.2008, his co-villager Soma Purty was missing since 19.06.2008. When they started searching for him, it transpired that on 19.06.2008, Soma Purty had been seen at Razi with his cousin brothers Gangu Purty @ Marshal and Budhu Nag Chatar (appellants), and thereafter, he was not seen again. A meeting was convened on 22.06.2008 and both these appellants were interrogated, and on pressure, they confessed the crime of killing him in the night on 19.06.2008 by Farsa and Tangi. Thereafter, in order to cause the disappearance of the evidence, the dead body had been concealed 5 Km. deep in the forest. On the said disclosure, informant along with Malki Purty, Alfos Purty, Dugi Bandia, Dunda Soren went to the place where the body had been concealed in a ditch covered with leaf. There was deep wound on the neck and over the right kne