JUDGMENT :

Ajai Tyagi, J.

1. This appeal is preferred against the judgment and order dated 27.6.2018, passed by Additional Sessions Judge, Court NO.11, Meerut, in Sessions Trial No.553 of 2015 (State vs. Anurag Sharma) arising out of Case Crime No.64 of 2015 under Section 302 IPC, Police Station-Kotwali, Meerut by which the accused appellant was convicted under Section 302 IPC and sentenced with life imprisonment and fine of Rs.25,000/- with one year additional imprisonment in case of default of fine.

2. The brief facts of the case as culled out from the record are that a Written-report (Ex.ka1) was submitted by the complainant, namely, Shail Kumari Sharma (mother of the accused and wife of the deceased) to the Police Station-Kotwali, Meerut on 12.3.2015 with the averments that on that date at about 12:30 p.m., she had gone to the house of her brother at Devpuri and from there she went to Nagar Palika with her nephew, namely, Shivanshu Sharma S/o. Promod Kumar Sharma to deposit the house-tax. She had left her husband Prem Kishan Sharma aged about 70 years and her son Anurag Sharma