JUDGMENT

R. BANUMATHI, J.

This appeal arises out of the judgment dated 30.07.2015 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Bombay in Criminal Appeal No.174 of 1994 in and by which the High Court reversed the judgment of the acquittal of the appellants/accused Nos. 3, 5, 7 and 8 and convicted them under Sections 147, 148, 302 read with 149 IPC and sentenced them to undergo life imprisonment.

2. Briefly stated case of the prosecution is that PW-2-Anant Budhaji Joshi is the brother of deceased Machindra Budhaji Joshi. Both Anant and Machindra were doing the work of electric fitting. PW-3-Kesarinath Bhagat and PW-4-Vasudeo Gaikar were also doing the same work. Appellant Motiram Padu Joshi (A3), Ratan Maruti Vaskar (A5), Devidas Maruti Vaskar (A7), Ramnath @ Ram Padu Joshi (A8), deceased-Machindra and prosecution witnesses are residents of village Owa-peth, Taluka Panvel, District Raigad. Appellants/accused were belonging to congress party and the deceased and the prosecution witnesses were from Shiv-sena party. In the election of Zilla Parishad in 1992, both parties became inimical to each other.

3. On 26.04.1992, deceased Machindra had gone to village Nandgaon for electric fitting wo