JUDGMENT :

Manish Choudhury, J.

The instant criminal appeal from Jail is directed against a Judgment & Order dated 08.08.2019 passed by the Court of learned Additional Sessions Judge, Biswanath Chariali at Sonitpur, Assam [‘the Trial Court’, for short] in Sessions Case no. 27 of 2018. By the Judgment & Order dated 08.08.2019, the Trial Court has convicted the accused-appellant for the offence under Section 302 , Indian Penal Code [ IPC ] and he has been sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Rs. 5,000/-, in default of payment of fine, to undergo rigorous imprisonment for another two months.

2. The investigation was set into motion on the basis of a First Information Report [FIR] lodged by the informant, Smti. Tipari Ghatowar [P.W.8] on 20.03.2017 before the Officer In-Charge, Gohpur Police Station reporting about an alleged murder occurred at 06-00 p.m. on that day. In the FIR, the informant had inter alia stated that at around 06-00 p.m. on that day, the accused-appellant, Dhan Gowala killed his brother-in-law, Matilal Ghatowar, aged about 30 years and a resident of Bishnupur Majgaon, by hacking him with a dao. After the assault, the accused-appella