JUDGMENT

Dr. ARIJIT PASAYAT, J.—

1.Challenge in this appeal is to the judgment of the Division Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court holding the appellant guilty of offences punishable under Section 302 and Section 201 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (in short the ‘IPC’). Before the High Court challenge was to the judgment of the learned IInd Additional Sessions Judge, West Godavari, Eluru whereunder appellant and his mother were found guilty of offences punishable under Section 302 read with Section 34 IPC and Section 201 IPC read with Section 34 IPC. Each was sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life and pay a fine of Rs.1,000/- with default stipulation for the first offence and 5 years imprisonment and fine of Rs.500/- with default stipulation for the latter offence.

2.Background facts in a nutshell are as under :

Koduri Kasiviswanadham (PW-2) is having some agricultural lands at Mallavaram. There is a farmhouse containing one room in his fields. Byvarapu Raju (A-1) was working as a farm servant since 1 = years prior to the incident. The deceased who is no other than the father of A-l used to come along with him. Nagamani (A2) was the wife of the deceased. The deceased was the re