JUDGMENT :

Vipul M. Pancholi, J.

The present appeal is filed under Section 374(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 against judgment of conviction dated 22.05.2015 and order of sentence dated 28.05.2015 rendered by 3rd Additional District & Sessions Judge, Barh, Patna in S.T. No. 116/06, corresponding to G.R. No. 723/2001, arising out of Barh Case No. 203/2001, by which the concerned trial court has convicted the appellant/accused for the offence punishable under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code and is ordered to undergo rigorous imprisonment for life and a fine of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) only, and in default of payment of fine, he shall have to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of two years more. Further the appellant is sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of three years and a fine of Rs. 5000/-(five thousand) only for the offence punishable under Section 27 of the Arms and in default of payment of fine, he shall have to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year more. Both sentences run concurrently.

2. It is the case of the prosecution that the informant Barfi Devi, wife of late Dineshwar Yadav, proceeded to go with her husband to her pa