JUDGMENT

G.ANUPAMA CHAKRAVARTHY, J. - This Criminal Appeal is preferred against the judgment and sentence of imprisonment, in S.C.No.463 of 2009, dtd. 29/10/2013, on the file of II Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Hyderabad, wherein the sole accused/appellant found guilty for the offences punishable under Ss. 302 and 380 of IPC and was sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for life and shall pay a fine of Rs.10, 000.00 for the offence punishable under Sec. 302 of IPC and in default of payment of fine, he shall undergo simple imprisonment for a period of three months. Further, the appellant was sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of three years and also shall pay a fine of Rs.5, 000.00 for the offence punishable under Sec. 380 of IPC and in default of payment of fine, he shall undergo simple imprisonment for a period of two months.

2. The brief facts of the case of the prosecution are that the deceased G.Babu Rao as well as the accused were working as sweepers in Railway Mail Service situated in II floor of General Post Office, JN Road, Abids, Hyderabad. While so, on the intervening night of 2/3/2/2009, the accused murdered the deceased Babu Rao in the