JUDGMENT

(27/07/2021)

Per Atul Sreedharan J.

The appellant is aggrieved by the judgment of conviction and sentence dated 22.6.2009 passed in Sessions Trial No.130/2008 by the Ld. Sessions Judge, Mandla, by which the appellant was found guilty of offences under sections 302 and 201 of the IPC and sentenced to suffer rigorous imprisonment for life under section 302 IPC and three years rigorous imprisonment for an offence under section 201 IPC. The appellant was also to suffer a fine of Rs.500/- and an additional three months rigorous imprisonment for default of payment of fine.

2. The admitted facts in this case is that the appellant is the son of the deceased. The witness Sem Bai alias Shyam Bai is the mother of the appellant and Dilip is the brother of the appellant. It is also undisputed that in the veranda of the house of the deceased one Gopal (P.W.4) runs a dispensary.

3. On 25.8.2007, Thunnu Lal, the village Kotwar, lodged a report at Police Chowki Maneri that the accused Dilraj (the appellant) has murdered his father Ratan Singh and put his dead body in the septic tank. The Police commenced inquest proceedings and thereafter registered an FIR being Crime No.82/2007 under sections