Penal Code, 1860–Secs. 302, 364, 148 & 149–Conviction–Appreciation of–All the witnesses stated that the appellants inflicted the lathi blows on the person of deceased and they took the deceased elsewhere by beating him–Motive established–Defence failed to prove that it was a case of accident by a vehicle–Testimony of witnesses is found consistent and unrebutted in crossexamination–Prompt FIR with the detailed version of the incident–Merely because the recovery of lathies is not reliable, case of the prosecution cannot be disbelieved as the testimony of eye-witnesses is cogent and corroborated with the medical evidence–Conviction sustained.
