396. If any one of two or more persons, who are conjointly committing gang-robbery, commits murder in so committing gang-robbery, every one of those persons shall be punished with death or imprisonment for a term which may extend to *thirty years, and, where the punishment is not death, shall also be liable to whipping.

*NOTE— Previously “twenty years”–see section 10 of the Penal Code (Amendment) Act 2003 [Act A1210].