JUDGMENT :

[Manish Choudhury, J.] :

The instant appeal from jail is directed against a Judgment dated 03.08.2019 and an Order dated 05.08.2018 passed by the Additional Sessions Judge No. 1, Nagaon [‘the trial court’, for short] in Sessions Case no. 20/2018. By the said Judgment and Order, the accused-appellant has been convicted under Section 302, Indian Penal Code [IPC] and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Rs. 2,000/-, in default of payment of fine, to undergo further rigorous imprisonment for 4 [four] months.

2. The investigation was set into motion with the institution of a First Information Report [FIR] by one Sri Pankaj Hazarika [P.W.1] before the Officer In-Charge, Samaguri Police Station on 21.05.2017. In the said FIR, the informant-P.W.1 had inter alia alleged that the accused-appellant, who is the elder brother of the informant-P.W.1, had been asking from their father a share in the compensation amount which the father had received in respect of acquisition of land for construction of National Highway. The FIR had further mentioned that the accused-appellant later on, signed an agreement that he did not want any part of the compensatio