NATHA SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS appeal has been directed against the judgment dated 18th May, 1995, passed by the Additional Sessions Judge, Ferozepore. By this judgment, the learned Sessions Judge convicted the appellant under Sections 302/325/323, Indian Penal Code. Under Section 302, IPC, the appellant was sentenced to life imprisonment with a fine of Rs. 2000/-; in default of payment of fine, he was sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for six months. Under Section 325, IPC he was sentenced to undergo R.I. for two years with a fine of Rs. 500/- and in default of payment of fine, he was sentenced to further undergo R.I. for one month; and under Section 323, IPC, he was sentenced to undergo R.I. for six months. However, all the substantive sentences were ordered to run concurrently.

(2.) IN her statement, Paramjit Kaur (PW2) stated that on 14.12.1992 at about 6 P.M., she along with her mother Gulabo (PW3) and maternal grandmother (deceased Piaro) came back to Nohra of Balwant Ram where they were residing, after picking up Narma (Cotton). When her mother was cooking meals and her maternal grandmother was cutting vegetables, her father Natha Singh started quarrelling with her maternal grandmother and also started hurling abuses upon her. He snatched the knife from the hand of her maternal grandmother and gave a blow with it on her chin and she fell down. Thereafter, her father picked up a brick and hit it at the nose of her maternal grandmother and when her mother rushed to save her maternal grandmother, her father gave brick blows on the face and head of her mother. She further stated that she raised raula while weeping and in the meantime, William son of Tek Masih also came there. Thereafter her father ran away with the knife. On hearing raula (alarm) the owner of the Nohra Balwant Ram and the Chowkidar of the village came at the spot and leaving the Chowkidar near the dead body of her maternal grandmother, who had succumbed to her injuries at the spot, Balwant Ram took her mother Gulabo in a car and got her admitted in the hospital.

(3.) SWELLING in front of left ear. 5 cms. x 7 cms. X-ray was advised.