JUDGMENT

Bhaskar Rao, J. - Al and A2 are the appellants. They challenge their convictions under sections 302 and 201 of the Indian Penal Code and sentences to suffer imprisonment for life and R.I. for two years respectively imposed there under.

2. The gravamen of the charge against the accused is that on 27.10.1989 at about 11.00 p.m., at Kondakarla village, they caused the death of one Nagireddi Venkata Eswara Prakash (hereinafter referred to as "the deceased") by throttling him with a rope and also caused the evidence, regarding his death to disappear besides giving wrong information that the deceased died of excessive drinking of alcohol for screening the offence of murder.

3. In this appeal admittedly there is no direct evidence as regards the offence under section 302, I.P.C. The trial Court convicted the accused on the basis of the circumstantial evidence. According to the learned counsel, Sri Padmanabha Reddy, the circumstantial evidence is not conclusive to hold the accused liable for the offences they were convicted of. He submitted that the extra-judicial confession alleged to have been made by A3 to P.W. 1, a rickshaw puller, cannot be taken into consideration since the