V.N. SINHA, J.

1. Informant is the appellant herein. He has filed this appeal assailing the judgment/order dated 12.02.1993, passed by 2nd Additional District and Sessions Judge, Munger, in Sessions Trial No. 129 of 1992 whereunder he has been convicted under Section 302 of the Penal Code for committing murder of his mother Radha Devi and brother Ranjeet Prasad Singh in his house in the night of 19.10.1991 and sentenced to suffer rigorous imprisonment for life.

2. Prosecution case, as set out in the fardbeyan of the informant recorded by S.I. B.N. Pandey, Officer-in-Charge Harpur Police Station on 20.10.1991 at 8.15 A.M. in village Kaliee, is that in the previous night after taking dinner informant, his brother Ranjeet Prasad Singh spoke to their mother Radha Devi and as per her instruction informant went inside the room to sleep, mother and brother of informant slept on a cot in the northern side of verandah facing south. All of a sudden informant woke up between 10.30-10.45 P.M. hearing rumbling/ knocking sound coming from the court-yard, opened the door of his room slowly to see 10-12 armed men standing in the court-yard looking towards the door. The armed men wanted t