JASPAL SINGH, J

The present appeal emanates from the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated February 02, 2009, whereby, appellant was convicted for the offences under Sections 302 and 201 of Indian Penal Code (for short “IPC”) and was sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life with fine of Rs.500/and in default, thereof, to further undergo RI for one year for an offence under Section 302 IPC and to undergo RI for five years for an offence under Section 201 IPC. The substantive sentences were ordered to run concurrently and period of detention already undergone by convict was ordered to be set off from his substantive sentence of imprisonment.

2. In nutshell, the case of prosecution is that on April 16, 2007, upon receipt of telephonic information that an unidentified dead body was lying in the bushes near railway line going from Hisar to Rewari between Swastic and Mittal Pipe Factories, SHO Police Station, GRP Hisar accompanied by other police officials visited the said place and found a dead body of an unidentified person, aged about 35/36 years. In the meantime, Deepak Kumar accompanied by Om Parkash also reached there, after coming to know the factum of dead