JUDGMENT

Date : 11-03-2024 [Manish Choudhury, J.]

The instant appeal from jail is directed against a Judgment and Order dated 21.11.2019 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Udalguri in Sessions Case no. 22[DU]/2014. By the said Judgment and Order dated 21.11.2019, the accused-appellant has been convicted for the offences under Sections 302/448/143, Indian Penal Code [IPC]. For the offence under Section 302, IPC, the accused-appellant has been sentenced to undergo life imprisonment and to pay a fine of Rs. 10,000/-, in default of payment of fine, to undergo rigorous imprisonment for further 6 [six] months. For the offence under Section 448, IPC, the accused-appellant has been sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for 1 [one] year and for the offence under Section 143, IPC, the accused-appellant has been sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for 6 [six] months. As per the impugned Judgment and Order dated 21.11.2019, all the sentences are to run concurrently.

2. The case of the prosecution, in brief, as has emerged from the First Information Report [FIR] [Ext.5] lodged by the informant-P.W.6 on 07.04.2010 before the Officer In- Charge, Udalguri Police Station, was