JUDGMENT

S.K. Panigrahi, J. - This appeal has been preferred by the present accused appellant against the judgment and order dated 28.01.2014 passed by the learned 2nd Additional Sessions Judge, Rourkela in Sessions Trial No.128/75/5 of 2012-13 whereby the accused who stood charged under Sections 457/307/302 of the Indian Penal Code has been convicted for the offence under Sections 452/307/302 of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced to undergo life imprisonment.

2. The concise facts of the case as set out by the prosecution is that on the night/early morning of 2nd October 2011 at around 12:10 A.M. while the sister of the informant was asleep with her mother, the accused trespassed into their house by scaling the wall and attacked their mother by means of a sharp knife on her lower abdomen and chest. The sister of the informant woke up to find the accused dealing blows to her mother. She tried to save her mother and in the process she sustained injury on her hand. The accused thereafter fled away from the spot. The informant lodged a written report before the IIC, Bondamunda Police Station who registered P.S. Case No.65 dated 2.10.2011 u/s. 452, 307 of the Indian Penal Code and invest