1. The present appeal has been filed against the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 09/15.06.2004 passed by the Sessions Judge, Yamunanagar.

2. The instant FIR came to be registered on 08.01.2002. The accused - appellants came to be convicted vide judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 09/15.06.2004. The present appeal against the judgment of conviction and order of sentence was filed on 26.06.2004. The matter has come up for final hearing now after almost 23 years of the registration of the FIR.

3. The brief facts of the case are that On 07.01.2002, a telephonic message was received in the Police Station Jathlana that a quarrel had taken place in village Rajheri and that the injured had been removed to Civil Hospital Radaur. On receiving this information Amar Nath SI / SHO along with Madan Lal ASI, Mohinder Singh ASI, HC Randhir Singh, Constable Karan Singh and Constable Inderjit Singh reached Civil Hospital Radaur where complainant Dharam Singh made a statement to the effect that he had three brothers. He was the eldest and younger to him was Karan Singh and younger to Karan Singh was Udhey Singh and the youngest was his brother Krishan Kumar (decease