RAJENDRA BABAN OMBALE Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The appellant-original accused assails the judgment and order dated 30.04.2007 passed by the learned Addl. Sessions Judge, Satara in Sessions Case No.16 of 2006, convicting him for committing the murder of his brother Sanjay Baban Ombale and for causing disappearance of the evidence of said murder with intent to screen himself from the legal punishment for committing said murder and sentencing him to suffer rigorous imprisonment for life imprisonment and to pay a fine of Rs.1,000/-, in default of payment of fine, to suffer further S.I. for two months for committing the offence of murder and to suffer rigorous imprisonment for five years and to pay a fine of Rs.1,000/-, in default of payment of fine, to suffer further S.I. for two months for the offence under Section 201 of I.P.C., i.e., for causing disappearance of the evidence of murder and further ordering to run both the substantive sentences concurrently.

(2.) According to the prosecution, the first informant Baban Maruti Ombale was residing alongwith wife Vimal, son, i.e., the appellant, his three children, another son deceased Sanjay, his three children, another son Sachin and his wife Manisha at Gogawalewadi, Taluka Koregaon, Dist. Satara. The Vimal wife of first informant had been to parental home, a fortnight prior to occurring of incident in-question on 30th April, 2005.

(3.) The appellant pleaded not guilty to the charge for the offences under Sections 302 and 201 of I.P.C. framed against him by the Court of Sessions at Satara after the case was committed to said Court by the Committal Court.