JUDGMENT :

SANJAY KUMAR MEDHI, J.

1. The present Appeal has been preferred form Jail under Section 374(2) of the Cr.P.C. against a judgment and order dated 7.5.2015, passed by the learned Sessions Judge, East Sessions Division, Tezu, Lohit District in Sessions Case No. 49 (CLG)/2012. By the impugned judgment and order, the appellant has been convicted under Section 302 of the IPC and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for life.

2. We have heard Shri T.T. Tara, learned counsel appearing as Amicus Curiae for the appellant as well as Ms. L. Hage, learned Additional Public Prosecutor, State of Arunachal Pradesh.

3. The brief facts of the case may be narrated as follows.

4. An FIR was lodged on 20.11.2011 by one Smt. Boijayanti Deori (PW-1) stating that on the said date, her husband Jotin Deori (deceased) had gone out to the cultivation field with his servant known as Goddu (the appellant herein) and did not return till the evening. As a result, she along with her brother-in-law, Shri Chandra Deori (PW-2) had gone out in search and found the dead body of her husband half buried in the cultivation field with the head missing. The servant was found missing from the place of occurrence.