JUDGMENT

Pabitra Kumar Banerjee, J. - The appellants have been convicted under section 302 read with section 34, Indian Penal Code and each of them has been sentenced to imprisonment for life. This appeal directed against the aforesaid order of conviction and sentence arises under the following circumstances.

2. In the early hours of 15th March 1980, A.K. Guha, P.W. I, booking clerk of Bira Railway Station, sent a message to Babra Police Station that a dead body had been recovered in a field near the railway station. On receipt of such message, S.I. of Police A.K. Das P.W. 36, then attached to Habra P.S., rushed to Bira Railway Station platform along with force and from there to the field where he found the dead body of a young married girl, which bore stab-wound on the chest, lying in a pool of blood and some articles including a leather suit case, a. blood stained dagger and sarees scattered around. The Investigating Officer, who had already started investigation on the statement of Timir Ghose, held inquest on the dead body, identified to be of Timir's wife Bani and sent it under the escort of constable Biswanath Ghose P.W. 34 to the S.D.M.O., Barasat for post-mortem examination