COMMON JUDGMENT

(Judgment of the Court was delivered by P.VELMURUGAN,J.)

The Criminal Appeals are directed against the judgment dated13.02.2021 in SC No.17 of 2018 on the file of the Sessions Judge, Mahila Court, Trichy, in and by which, the appellants were convicted and sentenced for the offences as tabulated below:

Sl.No. Offences u/s. IPC Rank of the Accused Period of sentence1 449 A1 & A2 To undergo rigorous imprisonment for three years and to pay a fine of Rs. 2,000/- each, in default to undergo simple imprisonment for three months

2 342 A1 & A2 To undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year and to pay a fine of Rs. 1,000/- each in default to undergo simple imprisonment for one month

3 302 r/w 34 A1 & A2 To undergo imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Rs. 5,000/- each, in default, to undergo simple imprisonment for six months.

The sentences were ordered to be run concurrently.

2. The case of the prosecution in nutshell is as follows:

The deceased in this case was one Kalaiselvi. She was a resident of Vadukarpettai and was working as a staff nurse in Primary Health Centre, Vadukarpettai. Both the accused are residing in Semmanpalayam at Vadugarpettai. The accused used to unload th