JUDGMENT :

Subhash Chand, J.

1. This Criminal Appeal has been preferred against the judgment of conviction dated 28.11.2016 and the order of sentence dated 30.11.2016 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge-III, West Singhbhum at Chaibasa, whereby the learned trial Court has convicted the appellant under Sections 302 of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced him to undergo imprisonment for life along with fine of Rs.10,000/-for the offence under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code. In case of default in payment of fine, the appellant was further directed to undergo SI for six months.

2. The brief facts of the prosecution case leading to this Criminal Appeal are that the informant Jug Singh Sidhu had given the written information with the police station concerned with these allegations that on 09.07.2012 at 04:00 O’clock in the evening his mother was at house, at the same time, the appellant, namely, Sur Singh Sidhu told that her bull died and, on this pretext, he took his mother from the house and, thereafter, he committed her murder by throttling her. Hearing the screaming of the mother, the informant also reached to the place of occurrence and saw the appellant fleeing away