JUDGMENT

Vinod Chandran, J.

The deleterious effects of moral policing; life was taken, of one who indulged in it, is the case projected by the prosecution. The deceased and his friends, in their late teens used to play cricket in the vacant plot near which a lady of allegedly loose morals lived. There were frequent visitors to the said house which was objected to by the deceased and his friends. On the first instance in this case, the prosecution alleged, on 06.03.2004 the 1st accused went to that house with a lady, and on his way back, those who were playing in the ground waylaid him. There was a wordy altercation and push and pull after which A1 threatened the persons who waylaid and asked them to verify his antecedents in Neendakara, again as an ominous warning. The friends chased A1 and the deceased thrashed him up on the road near a shop. A1 returned with a gang on 13.03.2004 and the deceased and his friends ran for their lives. Again A1 and A2 with some others confronted the deceased and PW23 and roughed them up. The deceased asked PW23 to summon their friends, upon which, PW23 ran away, so to do. By the time PW1 and his friends came to the spot, the deceased had moved further