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IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK
SIBO SANKAR MISHRA
Nanda @ Pradeep Kumar Swain – Appellant
Versus
State of Orissa – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
S.S. Mishra, J.
This Criminal Appeal is directed against the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 02.07.1999 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Jajpur in S.T. No. 668 /48 of 1997 [arising out of G.R. Case No. 97(A)/95], whereby the learned trial court convicted the appellant under Section 324 of IPC and sentenced him to undergo R.I. for one year and to pay a fine of Rs.1,000/-, in default to undergo R.I. for three months.
2. Heard Mr. Kamalakanta Sethi, learned counsel for the appellant and Mr. Sobhan Panigrahi, learned Additional Standing Counsel for the State.
3. The prosecution case, in nutshell, is that on 01.02.1995 morning the informant, P.W.1 got information that his son Daria had been murdered. Getting the information, he came to the spot and found his son Daria was lying dead by the side of a half constructed house near the house of Babaji Swain. A chadar had been put around his neck. The informant got the information from one Bipin Malik (P.W.2) of his village that on the previous night accused Pradip Swain @ Nanda asked the deceased Daria to pay him Rs.20/-. But, when Daria refused to pay, the accused injured Daria on the thigh by a k
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