Denis Ong JCA:

I have had the advantage of reading the judgments of both my learned brothers Abdul Hamid Mohamad and Abdul Aziz Mohamad in draft. I concur with the decision of Abdul Hamid Mohamad that this appeal be dismissed and the convictions and sentence confirmed for the same reasons expressed in his judgment.

Abdul Hamid Mohamad JCA:

There are three separate appeals by the three appellants. However, even at the High Court they were referred to as the 1st, 2nd and 3rd accused and the appeal record also refer to them as the 1st, 2nd and 3rd appellants respectively. In this judgment I shall refer to them as 1st, 2nd and 3rd appellants, the 1st appellant being Gunalan a/l Ramachandran, the 2nd appellant being Ganesan a/l Haja Mohidin and the 3rd appellant being Victor a/l Rajendran.

Mr. Gurbachan Singh appeared for the 1st and 2nd appellants and Mr. Suresh Thanabalasingam and Mr. Kuldip Singh appeared for the 3rd appellant. Deputy Public Prosecutor, Encik Abdul Wahab bin Mohamad appeared for the Public Prosecutor.

As Mr. Suresh, learned counsel for the 3rd appellant adopted the submissions of learned counsel for the 1st and 2nd appellants and his (Mr. Suresh) brief submi