PRADEEP NANDRAJOG, MUKTA GUPTA
Nooruddin – Appellant
Versus
State – Respondent
Gupta Mukta Gupta, J.
1. Nooruddin and Shahid assail the judgment dated June 06, 2012 whereby they were convicted for offences punishable under Sections 302/34 IPC for the murder of Ikramuddin and the order on sentence dated June 07, 2012 directing them to undergo imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Rs.5000/- each.
2. The prosecution case rests on the testimony of two eye-witnesses Mohd.Faiyad PW-1 and Mohd.Akeel PW-2 which is assailed by the learned counsel for the appellants on the ground that Mohd.Faiyad and Mohd.Akeel were not present at the spot. Further even accepting the version of Mohd.Faiyad and Mohd.Akeel, the site plan would evince that they could not have witnessed the incident from the house of Mohd.Shahid. Even as per the case of prosecution Ikramuddin and Faiyad had gone to the house of Shahid and thus were the aggressors making probable the version of defence that Ikramuddin and Mohd.Faiyad came to the house of Mohd.Shahid along with 10/12 persons and in the melee who caused gunshot injury was not known. The weapon of offence has not been recovered till date. The story of the prosecution that Nawab gave pistol to Nooruddin who fired the shot and retu
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