(1.) Challenging the judgment of conviction and sentence in S.C.No.200 of 2016 dtd. 30/10/2018 passed by the Principal Sessions Judge, Cuddalore, the present Criminal Appeal has been filed by the appellant/accused.
(2.) The allegation against the appellant/accused Dinesh is that he had murdered his school mate Sathishkumaran on his refusal to accede to the lust of the appellant/accused to have homo-sex with him, fearing that he would reveal it to others and in order to screen his offence, he had buried the dead body near the compound wall of his residence.
(3.) The sequence of events as elicited from the prosecution witnesses and other materials is as under:-