JUDGEMENT

HARISH VAIDYANATHAN SHANKAR, J.

1. The present appeal is preferred under Section 374(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, Cr.P.C filed against the Judgment dated 03.05.2023, [2Impugned judgement] convicting the Appellant for the offence punishable under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, [3IPC] and the Order on Sentence dated 24.08.2023, [4Impugned sentencing order] sentencing the Appellant to life imprisonment. In addition, he has been fined an amount of Rs.15,000/- under Section 302 of the IPC, and in the event of default in payment of the fine, he has been directed to undergo simple imprisonment for a period of one month.

2. At this juncture, it will be apposite to advert to the salient facts presented before the Ld. Trial Court, which led to the Appellant‟s conviction and the subsequent filing of the present Appeal.

3. On 23.04.2018, Constable Ajay Rana (PW-10), who was on duty at Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital, received information, at around 10 a.m., from the on-duty doctor that a woman had been brought in already deceased. He telephonically passed this information to the Police Post at the hospital, and the incident was recorded in the Daily Diary,