JUDGMENT :

Sambasivarao Naidu, J.

This Criminal Appeal has been filed under Section 374(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short, ‘Cr.P.C.’), by the sole accused in Sessions Case No.258 of 2013 on the file of the Principal Sessions Judge, Adilabad. The appeal challenges the sentence of conviction recorded by the trial Court vide Judgment dated 23.11.2015 where under the trial Court found him guilty for the offenses punishable under Sections 302 and 379 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for brevity, ‘IPC’) and convicted him under Section 235(2) of Cr.P.C.

2. The appellant-accused was sentenced to undergo life imprisonment and to pay a fine of Rs.5,000/- and in default of payment of fine, the accused shall suffer simple imprisonment for three months for the offence under Section 302 of IPC and the appellant was further sentenced to suffer rigorous imprisonment for a period of three years and to pay fine of Rs.1,000/- in default of payment of fine, he shall suffer simple imprisonment for one month for the offence under Section 379 of IPC. The trial Court directed that both the above referred sentences would run concurrently and any remand period, if applicable, would be given