[Criminal Appeal Nos. 1551-1554 of 2008]. These appeals by special leave by the State are directed against the common judgment and order dated 27th May, 2005 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad in Criminal Appeal Nos. 2181, 1997, 2027, 2129, 2936 and 2903 of 2004 and Criminal Reference No. 7 of 2004 (for confirmation of death sentence of accused Manoj, Sonu, Umesh, Tej Pal and Narendra), whereby appeals of accused Dinesh and Sheo Pal was allowed acquitting them of the charges and appeals of accused Manoj, Sonu, Umesh, Tej Pal and Narendra were partly allowed converting their death sentence to life imprisonment. The facts in brief leading to the filing of the present case are that one Pushplata alias Guddy (PW-1) lodged a report at Police station Deoband, Saharanpur that there was a dispute and enmity between her husband Dr. Rajveer Singh and brother-in-law Rajpal Singh with regard to a land and litigation which was pending in the Court. Due to said enmity, on 3.6.2001 at about 7.00 AM Manoj, Sonu alias Ajay, Umesh and Sunil armed with country made pistols and Tej Pal, brother in-law of Sonu, Narendra, son-in-law of Rajpal Singh armed with knives came to her house and killed her husband, sons Manish and Ashish and her brother Vinod with fire arms and knives.
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