RAM SURAT Vs. STATE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) RAM Surat, appellant, aged about 60 years has been convicted and sentenced under section'307 IPC to undergo RI for 7 years for having assaulted RAM Lakhan, PW 1 of his village Kewari Police Station Kaptanganj, district Basti with a spear (Bhala) on 17-9-1972 at about 8 A. M.

(2.) THE report of the occurrence was lodged verbally by Sarju, PW 2, at the police station at 2.45 P. M. Ram Lakhan Misra, S. I., PW 5, entered upon investigation.

(3.) THE appellant did not admit to have assaulted Ram Lakhan. He asserted that Ram Lakhan had got his possession recorded on his field, that Ram Lakhan wanted to take that field in consolidation, that he did not agree, that therefore. Ram Lakhan was hostile to him and [had falsely implicated him in this case.