1. Appellants have preferred the present appeal being aggrieved by the impugned judgment dated 29.11.2019 passed by the Learned 9th Additional Sessions Judge, Satna in ST No.205/2017 whereby appellants have been convicted for commission of offence under Section 302 /34 of the IPC and have been sentenced to imprisonment for life along with fine of Rs.5,000/- and appellant No.1 Ashish Sondhiya has also been convicted under Section 323 of the IPC and has been sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for 3 months along with fine of Rs.500/- with default stipulation.

2. As per the prosecution story, in the intervening night of 09.05.2017, rainy water was collected on the roof of house of complainant-Kiran (wife of deceased Santosh). On 10.05.2017 in the morning, she saw that her husband was trying to remove water from the roof and upon inserting a stick into drain pipe, it was not clear