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[Judgment of the Court was delivered by R.PONGIAPPAN, J.] The present two appeals have been filed by the appellants against the judgment passed in SC No.97 of 2013 dated 22.11.2018, on the file of the learned Principal District and Sessions Judge, Thiruvannamalai.

2. The appellants in Crl.A.No.784 of 2019 are arrayed as 1st and 2nd accused and the appellants in Crl.A.No.785 of 2019 are arrayed as 3rd and 4th accused in the abovesaid case. All the accused stood charged for the offence under Sections 341, 302, 302 r/w 120(b) and 34 IPC. The accused denied the charges and opted for trial. Therefore, they were put on trial of the charges. After full fledged trial, the learned Sessions Judge, found the accused guilty of the offences under Section 341, 302, 302 r/w 34 and 341 r/w 34 IPC. Accordingly, all the accused were convicted and sentenced as follows:

Immediately, she rushed to the hospital and saw the dead body of her husband. She gave complaint before the police under Ex.P1.

(ii) PW21-Mr.P.Sundaramoorthy, the then Sub Inspector of Police, Thiruvannamalai Police Station, on 04.01.2012, received the complaint from http://www.judis.nic.in Crl.A.Nos.784 & 785 of 2018 PW1 and registered a case in Crime No.23 of 2012 under Section 302 IPC. The printed FIR is marked as Ex.P15. Immediately, after the registration of the case, he handed over the case records to PW25-Mr.Gunasekaran, for the purpose of investigation.

(vi) In continuation of the investigation, PW26-Vinayagamurthy, the then Inspector of Police, Thiruvannamalai Town Police Station, on 06.01.2012 arrested the 1st and 2nd accused and recorded the confession statement given by them. On the same day, at about 4.30pm, after making identification by 1st accused, he recovered the blood stained Veecharuval (Machete), blood stained striped black colour pant and brown colour T-shirt under the cover of Mahazar [Exs.P23 and P24]. On the same day, at about 3.00pm, on identification by 2 nd accused Manikandan he recovered a aruval (Bill hook) and blood stained dark green colour pant and blood stained cement colour checked full hand shirt under the Cover of Mahazar. He examined the witnesses and recorded their statements. On the same day, at about 7.00pm, he arrested 3rd Accused- Sampath and 4th Accused-Manikandan and sent them for judicial custody. He forwarded the material objects to the Court of Judicial Magistrate No.1, Thiruvannamalai, for further action. He submitted an application before the learned Judicial Magistrate No.1, Thiruvannamalai, for sending the material objects and viscera for chemical examination.

http://www.judis.nic.in Crl.A.Nos.784 & 785 of 2018

12. PW20-Murugan, the then Head Constable of Thiruvannamalai Town Police Station, has stated about the handing over of FIR to the Magistrate. PW21-V.Sundaramurthy, the then Sub Inspector of Police, Thiruvannamalai Town Police Station, has stated about the receiving of the complaint and registration of the case.