JUDGMENT :

SUNDER MOHAN, J.

Prayer : Criminal Appeal filed under Sections 374(2) of Criminal Procedure Code to call for the records of the Judgment passed in S.C.No.407 of 2018 dated 02.04.2019 on the file of the IV Additional District and Sessions Judge, Tirunelveli and set aside the same and acquit the appellant/accused.

The sole accused has filed the above appeal challenging the Judgment of Conviction and Sentence imposed on him for the offence under Sections 302, 364 and 201 IPC by the learned IV Additional District and Sessions Judge, Tirunelveli in S.C.No.407 of 2018 dated 02.04.2019.

2. The case of the prosecution is that on 27.08.2016 at about 11.45 p.m, the appellant/accused with an intention to cause the death of his friend Ramesh called him to help him in committing murder of another person and took him in his bike bearing Reg.No.TN-76-D-6495 by concealing Knife and Aruval in his dress to cause his death. The appellant/accused parked the vehicle about 100 metres away from the town and when the people of the village were witnessing temple festival, the appellant took the deceased to a nearby farm belonging P.W.4 and attacked the deceased by using the Knife and Aruval. After c