HEERA LAL Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THROUGH this appeal, appellant Heera Lal challenges the judgment and order dated 21.4.1990, passed by the Special/ Additional Sessions Judge, Faizabad, in Sessions Trial No. 462 of 1988, whereby he has been convicted and sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life for the offence punishable under Section 302, I.P.C.

(2.) SHORTLY stated, the prosecution story runs as under : "The informant, Raj Mani (P.W. 2) is son of the deceased Sahdev and nephew of Laxmi Prasad (P.W. 3). At the time of the incident, the informant, Sahdev, Laxmi Prasad, Mahawal and the appellant were living in village Fattepur, hamlet of Ajmeri Badshahpur, within the limits of police station Tanda, district Faizabad."

(3.) THE autopsy on the corpse of the deceased Sahdev was conducted on 19.8.1988 at 11.00 p.m. by Dr. V. P. Singh (P.W. 4), who found on it the following ante-mortem injuries :