1. Appellant was tried for committing murder of Kundan Verma, s/o Laxmi Prasad Bhagat, on the night intervening 9th/ 10th June, 2012, in a room of CPWD Horticulture Nursery, at Sadiq Nagar, New Delhi and upon conclusion of trial in FIR No.67/2012, registered at Police Station Defence Colony, New Delhi, he stands convicted for the offence under Section 302 IPC vide judgment of 30th March, 2016 and vide order of 11th April, 2016, he has been sentenced to imprisonment for life.

2. The substratum of prosecution case, as noticed in the impugned judgment, is as under:-

Verily, on 09.06.2012, 5/6 persons were deputed to report to Munshi Ram in order to do some work in the park of Sadiq Nagar. However, the labours arrived late at about 01.00 P.M., or so and it was decided that the scheduled work shall be started tomorrow morning. Mushi Ram handed over the keys of the store room/rest room to that group so that they may stay there overnight and start their work early in the morning presumably due to the heat being at its peak in the month of June. When Munshi Ram arrived at the nursey on the next morning i.e. 10.06.2012, he found that the iron gate was locked. He was having a duplica