1. The appellant has come up against his conviction under S.307 of the Indian Penal Code for which he has been sentenced to 3½ years rigorous imprisonment by the Additional Sessions Judge, Delhi.

2. The allegations by the prosecution were that on the 9th of July, 1971, the appellant had brought his mother - in - law Kaushilya Devi from Hansi to Delhi. She was taken to the shop of P.W. 9 Mahinder Lal where she sat for a while. The appellant is then alleged to have come with a cycle and he took her away on that cycle. It was alleged that at a lonely spot to which she was taken the appellant inflicted injuries with an iron rod which on medical examination were found serious. The appellant then decamped. After regaining consciousness the lady who appeared at the trial as P.W. 10, was seen by P.W. 6, with blood oozing out from her head