THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE K.SURENDER AND THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE E.V.VENUGOPAL CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2699 of 2018 JUDGMENT: (per The Hon'ble Sri Justice K.SURENDER)

This appeal is filed by the appellant/A1, aggrieved by the conviction recorded by the Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Hyderabad, in S.C.No.04 of 2018 dated 11.09.2018, convicting the appellant under Section 302 read with Section 34 of IPC, and sentencing him to undergo life imprisonment and to pay a fine of Rs.500/- for the offence under Section 302 of IPC.

2. Heard learned counsel for the appellant and Sri Arun Kumar Dodla, learned Additional Public Prosecutor, Sri M.Vivekananda Reddy, learned Assistant Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondent-State.

3. PW.1 lodged an English typed complaint with the Police on 17.04.2017 at 10.00 A.M. In the complaint, he narrated that his brother Syed Omed Ali (deceased), was a rickshaw puller and on 16.04.2017 at 16.00 hours, he saw his brother in an auto going with the appellant and two others. When PW.1 questioned the deceased as to where they were all going, the deceased informed him that they were going to the Toddy Compound at Saroornagar.

The next day morning at 9.00 A.M., PW