PUNDALIK Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Leave granted.

(2.) Challenge in this appeal is to the final judgment and order dated 23rd October, 2008, delivered by the High Court of the Judicature at Bombay in Criminal Appeal No. 431 of 2003. By the impugned judgment, the High Court has upheld the conviction of the appellant for an offence punishable under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short "the IPC").

(3.) The prosecution version in nutshell is as follows: