This appeal is directed against the impugned judgment of conviction and sentence passed by the Presiding Officer, Fast Track Court, Hunsur, in S.C.No.248 of 2011 dated 27.09.2012 convicting the accused for offences punishable under Section 302 IPC and sentencing him to undergo imprisonment for life and directing that he shall not be released till the rest of his life.

2. The factual matrix of the appeal is as under:

On 16.06.2011, at about 10.00 a.m., the accused is said to have taken his second child, namely Nishor from the maternal house of the complainant situated at Saraswathipuram Extension, Hunsur under the guise of purchasing eatables to the child. The accused had taken his son Nishor as well as his sister-in-law’s son Shishya to Maratha Community Hall which was under construction near Shanimahatma temple, Hunsur, and suspecting that his child Nishor aged 1 year 4 months was not born through him, made the child drink the water mixed with ‘Zidovudine’, ‘Lamivudine’ and ‘Nevirapine’ tablets, as a result of which the child died. Pursuant to the act of the accused, on filing of a complaint by the complainant, the crime came to be registered by the police against the accu