JUDGMENT :

G. Jayachandran, J.

Prayer: Appeal filed under Section 374 (2) of Cr.P.C., to call for the records relating to judgment in S.C.No.70 of 2016, dated 06.01.2018, on the file of the learned Principal Sessions Judge, Tiruchirappalli and set aside the same and acquit the appellant/accused from the charge levelled against him.

This Criminal Appeal is filed assailing the conviction of life sentence imposed on the appellant for the offence punishable under Section 302 of I.P.C. in S.C.No.70 of 2016, on the file of the learned Principal Sessions Judge, Tiruchirappalli.

2. The gist of the prosecution case is that on 23.03.2015 at about 20.00 hours, Saroja [P.W.1], wife of Kuppusamy, came to the respondent Police Station and informed that her elder son namely, Durairaj, a B.E. graduate, who is married and unemployed, living along with them, since his wife estranged and living with her parents at Salem due to family dispute. P.W.1's husband used to reprimand him for idly sitting at home and advised him to go for work, whereas her son used to pressurize her husband to arrange for job. On the date of incident, at about 04.45 pm., her husband and her elder son were quarrelling regarding se