Advocates:
['SK MEHTA', '', 'NEERAJ KUMAR MEHTA', 'A G']

NAFR

HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH, BILASPUR

Criminal Appeal No.981 of 2002

Vijay Kumar alias Lolo Panika, son of Narmada Prasad Panika, aged about

29 years, R/o Village Barsara, P.S. Jhilmilee, District Surguja, Chhattisgarh

---- Appellant

versus

State of Chhattisgarh

---- Respondent

For Appellant

:

Shri Neeraj Kumar Mehta, Advocate

For State/Respondent

: Smt. Smita Ghai, Panel Lawyer

Hon'ble Shri Navin Sinha, Chief Justice

Hon'ble Shri Justice P. Sam Koshy

Judgment on Board

Per Navin Sinha, Chief Justice

27/4/2016

1.

The Appellant, who is the husband of the deceased stands

convicted under Sections 302 and 201 IPC to life imprisonment by the

6^th Additional Sessions Judge, Fast Track Court, Surajpur in Sessions Trial

No.26 of 1996 dated 28.8.2002.

2.

The deceased was aged 16 years, married to the Appellant two

years earlier. Her dead body was found on the railway track dismembered

into four pieces on 11.7.1995 in the morning. Merg 14/95 was registered

by the then Head Constable Christopher Tirki proved by PW-10, Dilip

Pandey. Formal FIR, Exhibit P-12 was lodged on 23.7.1995 by the latter.

Post Mortem, Exhibit P-7, was conducted on