SELLAPPAN Vs. STATE OF TAMIL NADU

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Leave granted.

(2.) Appellant calls in question legality of the judgment rendered by a Division Bench of the Madras High Court confirming the conviction of the appellant for commission of offence punishable under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (in short the 'IPC') and affirming the sentence of imprisonment of life as imposed. It is to be noted that the appellant was tried with one another whose conviction and the sentence imposed by the trial Court for offence punishable under Section 324 read with Section 511 IPC was set aside. Similar was the case for the appellant.

(3.) Background facts as projected by the prosecution in a nutshell are as follows: