SELVAM Vs. STATE THR. INSP. OF POLICE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This appeal arises out of final judgment and order dated 21.9.2010 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Madras in Referred Trial No. 1 of 2010 and Criminal Appeal No. 299 of 2010 confirming the judgment and order of death sentence dated 12.3.2010 passed by the Additional Sessions Judge, Salem in S.C.No. 198 of 2009.

(2.) The facts and circumstances arising out of this Criminal Appeal are that:

(3.) Mr. Neeraj Kumar Jain, learned senior counsel appearing for the appellant has submitted that it is a case of circumstantial evidence as there is no eye-witness. The depositions made by Marimuthu (PW.5) and Amudha (PW.8) cannot be relied upon as their version is quite unnatural and no evidence has been produced to corroborate the version given by the said witnesses, particularly, about the character of the appellant given by Amudha (PW.8). His wife and sister-in-law who alleged to have been mis-behaved with by the appellant had not been examined. More so, it was not a case where death sentence could have been awarded