Judgement on Board

Per Ramesh Sinha, C.J.

25/03/2025

1. The present appeal under Section 415(2) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita , 2023 (in short ‘ BNSS ’) has been filed by the appellant against impugned judgement of conviction and sentence passed by learned Second Additional Sessions Digitally signed by V Judge, Manendragarh, District Koriya in Sessions Case No. 21 of 2019, whereby the appellant has been convicted for the offence under Section 302 of IPC and sentenced for life imprisonment with fine of Rs. 5000/-, in default of payment of fine further R.I. for 05 months.

2. The brief facts of the case are that on 09.01.2019, at about 7:30 PM when the first informant Ramkripal (PW-6) was going to the grocery shop, he saw the abandoned hutment is burning, which was situated on the side of pond belonging to the village Bhola Yadav. When he went there along with Manish Shrivastava and Balender, they felt smell of something burning inside the hutment, and then Manish Shrivastava had informed the police through his mobile phone. When they went near the hutment, they saw a burnt dead body of unknown lady, who was aged about 22-23 years and wore anklet on her leg. The merg intimation/e