A. M. Badar, J.—By this appeal, appellant/convicted accused Uma Shankar Singh is challenging the judgment and order dated 26.02.2014 and 03.03.2014 respectively, passed by the learned Adhoc Additional Sessions Judge-I, Jehanabad, in Sessions Trial No.236 of 2012/99 of 2013 thereby convicted him of the offence punishable under Sections 302 of the Indian Penal Code and sentencing him to suffer rigorous imprisonment for life apart from a direction to pay fine of Rs.50,000/- (Fifty thousand). In default of payment of fine he is directed to undergo imprisonment for six months. For the sake of convenience, the appellant shall be referred to in his original capacity as an accused.

2. Facts in brief leading to the prosecution of the accused, projected from the police report, can be summarized thus:

(A) It is case of the prosecution that the accused had committed twin murder i.e., of Pankaj Kumar and Rubi Devi in their residential house in the night intervening 27.11.2010 and 28.11.2010 by assaulting them by means of a wooden stick and the ‘Khanti’- a heavy weapon made of iron used for digging the soil.

(B) It is case of the prosecution that Pankaj Kumar and his wife Rubi Devi (since deceased)