JUDGMENT :

Sujit Narayan Prasad, J.

1. The instant appeal has been preferred under Section 374(2) read with 389(1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure against the Judgment of conviction and Order of sentence dated 25.07.2015, passed by learned Sessions Judge, Dhanbad, in Sessions Trial No.96 of 2013, whereby, the appellant has been found guilty and convicted for the offence under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code and upon hearing on the point of sentence, the appellant has been sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life for the offence under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code and fine of Rs.20,000/- and in default of payment of fine, further S.I. for six months.

2. The prosecution case was instituted on the basis of fardbeyan of the informant, namely, Janeshwar Hembram, alleging therein that on the intervening night of 13/14.11.2012 the informant was sleeping in house when he heard the cry alarm of his sister, who was sleeping in another room with her husband Satya Charan Baski(accused/appellant), the present accused. When the informant along with other members of the family reached there, he found his sister Parwati Baski lying in pool of blood and the accused Satya Charan Baski w