Accused Nos.1 to 5 in SC/ST Sessions Case No.4 of 2008 on
the file of the learned Special Judge for trial of Offences under the
SCs and the STs (PoA) Act-cum-V Additional District and Sessions
Judge, Nellore (hereinafter referred to, as ‘the learned Special
Judge’), are the appellants in the present Criminal Appeal.
2.
Accused Nos.1 to 5 were tried by the learned Special
Judge for the offences punishable under Sections 147, 148, 324,
326, 307 read with 149 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for brevity
‘IPC’) and Section 3 (1) (x) of the Scheduled Castes and the
Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (for brevity
‘the SCs and STs (PoA) Act’).