ORAL JUDGMENT

(Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KUMAR UPADHYAY)

Date: 16-01-2018

The present appeal has been filed against the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 08.06.1992 and order of sentence dated 09.06.1992 passed by learned 1^st Additional Sessions Judge, Darbhanga in Sessions Trial No. 32 of 1985 / 69 of 1987, arising out of Bahadurpur P.S. case no. 288 of 1983, whereby all the appellants have been convicted under Section 302 read with Section 149 of the Indian Penal Code. The appellant nos.1, 6, 9 and 12, namely, namely, Hari Shankar Lal Das, Ratnesh Lal Das, Harihar Mandal and Lal Babu Mandal, have been further convicted under Section 148 of the Indian Penal Code and rest 11 appellants have been convicted under Section 147 of the Indian Penal Code. All the fifteen appellants have further been convicted under Sections 323 read with Section 149 of the Indian Penal Code and all the appellants have been sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life under Section 302 read with Section 149 of the Indian Penal Code. The appellant nos.1, 6, 9 and 12, namely, Hari Shankar Lal Das, Ratnesh Lal Das, Harihar Mandal and Lal Babu Mandal, have been further sentenced to undergo o