MADAN KUMAR Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) APPELLANT Madan Lal was convicted for offences under Sections 302, 307, 324, 323 IPC and was sentenced as under:

(2.) THE prosecution allegations, shorn of avoidable details, were as under: The appellant was in employment of deceased Harbhajan Singh, as domestic help. On the relevant day i.e. on 19.6.1997, the appellant demanded a sum of Rs. 1000/ -from his employer Harbhajan Singh who told him that he was presently not possessed of adequate funds and that he would pay up the demanded amount as soon as the funds were available with him. The appellant got enraged and told Harbhajan Singh that the denial of money may not cost him (Harbhajan Singh) dearly. The aforementioned utterance by the appellant invited a reprimand from Harbhajan Singh who told the former that such like things should not be said or else he (appellant) would get a beating. The episode ended there only. On that very day, the members of the complainant party retired to bed at about 9.00 PM after having had dinner. PW 11 Jagdish Singh and his father Harbhajan Singh were asleep in the courtyard, on separate beds.

(3.) THE injured, other than Harbhajan Singh, were taken in a tractor trolley to Government Hospital at Rajpura where they were medico -legally examined. Harbhajan Singh died enroute. The usual formalities were complied with and the appellant was challaned in due course.