JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Criminal Appeal filed under Section 374 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, to set aside the Judgment of the learned Principal Sessions Judge, Tiruvallur, Tiruvallur District in S.C.No.219 of 2013 dated 30.11.2015 and acquit the appellant herein from the charge under Section 323 of IPC.)

1. This Criminal Appeal has been filed by the accused, challenging the conviction and sentence imposed upon him vide judgment dated 30.11.2015, in S.C.No.219 of 2013, on the file of the learned Principal Sessions Judge, Tiruvallur.

2 (i) It is the case of the prosecution that, due to prior enmity and a dispute that arose with regard to the laying of electrical cable, the appellant/accused quarrelled with the deceased and his father and gave a fist blow on the chest of the appellant, as a result of which, the deceased swooned; and that P.W.1/wife of the deceased, took him to the hospital, where he was declared dead.

(ii) It is in the further case of prosecution that P.W.1/wife of the deceased, gave a complaint, and on receipt of the complaint, P.W.9/Inspector of Police, registered the FIR. P.W.9 took up the investigation, visited the scene of the occurren