JUDGMENT :

Subhash Chand, J.

The instant criminal appeal has been directed on behalf of appellant/convict Habib Mian @ Habib Ansari against the judgment of conviction dated 28.06.2023 and order of sentence dated 07.07.2023 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge-I, Bermo at Tenughat in Sessions Trial No.91 of 2021 whereby and whereunder the learned trial court has convicted the appellant under sections 341, 324, 302 of the Indian Penal Code (hereinafter referred to as ‘IPC’) and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for life and a fine of Rs.20,000/-for the offence under section 302 of IPC and in default of payment of fine, the convict was directed to undergo RI for 6 months, further for the offence under section 324 of IPC RI of 3 years, for the offence under section 341 of IPC RI for one month was directed. All the sentences were directed to run concurrently.

2. The brief facts leading to this criminal appeal are that the informant Jamir Mian had given the written information with the police station concerned with these allegations that on 02.03.2020 in the morning at 6 O'clock he was sleeping in his house. All of sudden his wife Majida Khatoon cried. Hearing her scream