ARMS ACT, 1959: s.27(3) – Held: Was declared

treated those elements as aggravating circumstances so as to award death sentence – The crime perpetrated by a group of people in an extremely brutal, grotesque and dastardly manner, could not be thrown upon the appellant alone – Appellant was a tribal, stated to be a member of the extremist group raging war against the minority settlers, apprehending perhaps they might snatch away their livelihood and encroach upon their properties, and possibly such frustration and neglect led them to take arms – Viewed in that perspective, it is not a rarest of rare case for awarding death sentence – Considering the gravity of the crime and the factors like extreme social indignation, death sentence is altered to that of imprisonment for life and the term of imprisonment as 20 years is fixed without remission, over and above the period of sentence already undergone