THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K.SURENDER AND THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE E.V.VENUGOPAL CRIMINAL APPEAL No.1046 of 2017 JUDGMENT: (Per Hon’ble Sri Justice K.Surender)

This Criminal Appeal is filed by the appellants/accused Nos.1 and 2, aggrieved by the judgment dated 28.04.2017, in SC/ST S.C.No.44 of 2016, on the file of the Special Judge for Trial of Offences under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989-cum-V Additional Sessions Judge, Medak at Sangareddy, whereby the appellants were convicted for the offence punishable under Section 302 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short ‘IPC’).

2. Heard learned counsel for the appellants and Sri Arun Kumar Dodla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for respondent– State. Perused the record.

3. When PW.1, who is a resident of Kondapaka Village, was in his house on 06.02.2015, one of his villagers, namely Lingampally Yadagiri, informed him that one person was lying in his agricultural land and he was alive. On that, he, along with the villagers, went there and found that one unidentified person was lying in his field with injuries around his neck. Then, PW.1 called an ambulance, and the