The appellants Nirmala Devi, Sanjay Kumar, and Bhagat Ram challenged their convictions arising from an incident on 04.09.2011 in which a dispute over digging a drain led to a physical altercation. Bhagat Ram struck the deceased Lal Chand on the head with a stick; the post-mortem revealed that the cause of death was acute coronary insufficiency due to hypertrophic heart disease triggered by sudden fear and anxiety resulting from the assault. The Trial Court convicted Bhagat Ram under Section 304 Part II IPC (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and sentenced him to five years' rigorous imprisonment, while Nirmala Devi and Sanjay Kumar were convicted under Section 323 IPC and fined. The appellants argued before the High Court that the prosecution relied on interested witnesses, that the informant party was the aggressor, that the injury was simple and not ordinarily fatal, and that the offence at most attracted Section 323 IPC rather than Section 304 Part II. The judgment as reproduced is incomplete and does not record the High Court's final decision.