JUDGMENT :

(Mridul Kumar Kalita, J.) :

1. This Criminal Appeal has been filed by the appellant Shri Suman Biswas @ Sumanta Biswas under Section 374 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 against Judgment and Order dated 18.12.2019 passed by learned Sessions Judge, Tirap, Changlang and Longding at Khonsa, Arunachal Pradesh in Khonsa Sessions Case No. 44/2019 convicting the present appellant under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code and sentencing him to undergo imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Rs. 10,000/-(Rupees Ten Thousand only) and in default of payment of fine to undergo further imprisonment for 2(two) months.

2. We have heard Mr. M. Biswas, learned counsel for the appellant and also heard Mr. N.N.B. Choudhury, learned Public Prosecutor, Arunachal Pradesh.

3. The facts relevant for adjudication of the present appeal, in brief, are as follows:-

i. That on 22.12.2016 at about 10:45 A.M., one Shri Limkon Mossang lodged an FIR before Officer-in-Charge of Miao Police Station, in the district of Changlang, Arunachal Pradesh, inter-alia, alleging that the younger brother of the first informant, namely, Manthai Mossang who was an employee of the Government of Arunachal Prade