JUDGMENT

Pattanaik, J.-The appellant has been convicted under Section 302/34 IPC along with the absconding accused, Yamlesmba Paka Singh and has been sentenced to imprisonment for life for having committed the murder of one Kangujam Hera Singh by the learned Additional Sessions Judge and the said conviction and sentence has been upheld in appeal by the Imphal Bench of the Gauhati High Court in Criminal Appeal No. 62 of 1987. The prosecution case in nutshell is that the deceased was a Lecturer of Standard College, Kongba. On 11.4.84, the students did not turn up and the deceased, therefore, spent some time in the College with one of his colleague, PW 8 and at 9.00 a.m. both of them left the College on a bicycle and reached the crossing between Imphal Yairipok road leading to Unchekon. At that point of time, three persons suddenly emerged who were armed with hockey sticks and thang and started assaulting the deceased. The deceased raised alarm and the assailants after giving blows ran away. The deceased was then removed to the nearby house of a Doctor, one Toijam Ibotomba Singh who has been examined as a Court witness, CW 1 who gave the first aid and the Doctor then left for Distric