Law: Penal Code (XLV of 1860)

Section: 302(b),114,34,107

Law: Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898)

Section: 367,227

(a)    Penal Code (XLV of 1860)--- ----Ss. 302(b), 114 & 34---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 367---Qatl-iamd, abettor present when offence committed, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Contents of judgment---Conviction awarded beyond the charge--Accused-appellant was charged that he along with his co-accused committed murder of three sons of complainant by firing---Record showed that the impugned judgment of conviction rendered by the Trial Court was not in the legal format as described in S. 367, Cr.P.C---Section 367 Cr.P.C obligated the Court to deliver a formal judgment at the end of trial---Said Section further prescribed the format of the judgment, which shall comprise three components: (i) the points for determination, (ii) the reasons, providing justification for the sentence or order of acquittal, and (iii) the decision with corresponding order---Impugned judgment of conviction lacked all the three mandatory components of a valid judgment as mentioned in S.367, Cr.P.C.---Impugned judgment of conviction was violative of S.367, Cr.P.C---Moreover, it was on the record that on 17-03-2017, Trial Court categorically charged the convict/appellant under a single head i.e. for his alleged abetment in the occurrence---On the contrary, Trial Court had convicted the appellant for causing intentional death of deceased sons of complainant and sharing common intention punishable under S. 34, P.P.C---Such deviation of the Trial Court was neither mentioned in the impugned judgment nor the Trial Court at any stage of trial altered the charge by exercising jurisdiction under S.227, Cr.P.C, nor was the same justified with any cogent reasons---Prosecution's case restedon the oral testimony of three eye-witnesses and the corroboratory evidence which consisted of the recovery of crime empties, blood stained soil and last worn clothes of the deceased---All the three eye-witnesses implicated the convict/appellant for his issuing command to the principal accused at the place of occurrence---After a thorough examination of the prosecution evidence on record pertaining to the charge of abetment, the prosecution evidence on the particular…