JUDGMENT

S.P. Kurdukar, J.-The High Court as well as the Sessions Court by their concurrent judgments held the appellants in all these criminal appeals guilty of committing the murder of one Deosharan @ Devsaran s/o Bigen and convicted them under Sections 302 and 201 IPC and sentenced each one of them to suffer imprisonment for life on first count and two years RI on second count. Substantive sentences were ordered to run concurrently. These appeals have been filed by the appellants (convicts) through jail.

2. Deosharan (since deceased) hailed from village Chirmari and at the relevant time he was staying at the house of Rambilas @ Vilas (A-5). Deosharan was said to be a notorious person and was addicted to liquor and womanizer too. He was said to have married four times and had even eloped with the wife of A-5 for a short period and after returning started living with A-5 only. It was alleged that there was a dispute between Deosharan and his father Bigen (P.W.1) on one hand and Samarsai (Bigen s nephew) on the other. The occurrence took place on 30.5.1985 and on that day "Ganga Dashara" a festival was being celebrated in the said area. The occurrence in question took place late in