ANIRUDDHA BOSE, J.

1. The appellant has been convicted on the charge of patricide by the Additional Sessions Judge, Fast Track Court No. 1 under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. In a judgment delivered on 10th March 2004, in Sessions Case No. 228 of 2003 corresponding Sessions Trial No. 57 of 2003, the Trial Court sentenced the appellant to suffer rigorous imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Rs.1,000/- in default of which he has been directed to suffer simple imprisonment for one month. This appeal is against that judgment.

2. Case against the accused was started on the basis of written complaint filed by one Pilu Majhi, another son of the deceased victim on 20th June 1990 at 1 P.M. in Balarampur Police Station in the district of Purulia. Substance of his complaint is that on the preceding

night, that is in the night of 19th June 1990 at about 10 P.M. the accused was seen fighting with his father, Falari Majhi at their house with a stick which eventually killed the latter. On being informed by Kalu Majhi, he reached the residential house of his father. He saw the dead body of the father of the complainant was found lying on the veranda with blood on the flo