CUTTACK, India, April 18 -- Orissa High Court issued the following order on March 17:
Since both the appeals arise out of a common impugned judgment and involve the same cause of action, they were analogously heard and are being disposed of by this common judgment.
The present appeals have been preferred by as many as twenty-six appellants who stand convicted by the learned 1st Additional Sessions Judge, Puri, vide judgment and order dated 25.03.1995 passed in S.T. Case No.18/72 of 1993, for the alleged commission of offences punishable under Sections 324/149 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 9-B(b) of the Explosive Substances Act, 1908 read with Section 149 of the Indian Penal Code. On that count, each of the appellants has been sente...