JUDGMENT :- The petitioner is convicted of the offence punishable under Section 326 of the Indian Penal Code and is sentenced to suffer R.I. for three months and to pay fine of Rs.500/ -, in default, to suffer S.I. for three weeks by Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nanded. The matter was carried in appeal. The order of conviction and sentence was confirmed by 4th Additional Sessions Judge, Nanded, by his order dated 8.9.1998. These orders are impugned in the present petition.

2. The facts, in nutshell are that: petitioner and complainant Mohammed Yunus were partners in the Ice factory. There were some disputes between them. On the day of occurrence, i.e. on 6.9.1990, at about 10 to 10.30 in the morning, near the hotel situated by the side of Hatai Masjid, there was a quarrel between the petitioner and Mohammed Yunus (PW-l). The quarrelled to a scuffle between the two. After the quarrel, petitioner went back to his house, returned with penknife and dealt a knife blow on the scapular region of Mohammed Yunus while he was unlocking his bicycle, in the presence of his father Mohd. Bagar (PW -2) and Sayeed Abdul Rahman (PW-3). Mohd. Yunus was then taken to the police station, where he lodged

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