JUDGMENT :

SACHIN SINGH RAJPUT, J.

1. Assailing the legality, correctness, judicial propriety of the impugned judgment of conviction and sentence dated 22.04.2015 passed in Sessions Trial No. 96/2014, by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, North Bastar Kanker (C.G.) (for short ‘the trial Court’) whereby the appellant has been convicted and sentence for life imprisonment and fine of Rs. 2,000/- and in default of payment of fine additional imprisonment for three months was imposed, the appellant is before this Court in this Criminal Appeal under Section 374(2) of Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (for short Cr.P.C.).

2. The appellant was convicted for offence punishable under Section 302 of Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short ‘IPC’) on the allegation of committing murder of his wife Manju Markam at about 11.30 a.m. on 14.06.2014 at village Kodekurse.

Facts of the case

3. The prosecution story in brief is that on 14.06.2014, appellant under the influence of liquor demanded money from his wife deceased Manju Markam. When deceased Manju Markam refused to pay the money, the appellant committed murder of the deceased by stabbing with scissors in her stomach which was kept in the home for cutting