JUDGMENT

RAY, J.:— Special leave granted. Heard learned counsel for the parties.

2. The prosecution case, in short, is that to create fear and terror, to commit murder and to aggravate tense situation some persons hatched a conspiracy to massacre the general public by placing transistor bombs at public places and also by placing them in public transports as trains, buses etc. Many explosions took place in May, 1985 in Delhi and parts of Uttar Pradesh in consequence whereof many persons were killed in Delhi and some places in Uttar Pradesh. Several cases were registered in different police stations of Aligarh, Ghaziabad, Meerut and Khekra etc. in Delhi. F.I.R. No. 238 of 1985 was registered i.e. State versus Kartar Singh Narang etc. wherein all the accused persons named therein were arrested except one Gurdeep Singh Sehgal who was declared as a proclaimed offender. The accused Jagjit Singh and Gurvinder Singh turned approvers and they were granted pardon under S. 306 Criminal P.C. 1973. They were examined as P.W. 1 and P.W. 2 in the committal case proceeding in the Court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate on December 24, 1985. Both these approvers resiled from their statements in the C