RAM SIRKA Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS Criminal Appeal has been preferred against the judgment and Order of conviction and sentence dated 23.09.2003 and 24.09.2003 respectively passed by Additional Sessions Judge. Fast Track Court -II, Chaibasa in Sessions Trial No.03 of 2003 convicting the appellant under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code and sentencing him to undergo R.I. for life.

(2.) THE prosecution case in short is that the informant Kuso Kerai (PW -3) lodged a fardbayan before the Police on 14.11.2002 at 11:00 a.m. that on the previous day at about 8:00 a.m. Rauto Sirka (PW -2) and Man Singh Sirka (not -examined) came to his house and informed that the appellant had killed his wife at about 12:00 in the night by assaulting on her head with iron piece (Hal Ka Fal) and he was trying to burn her dead body by covering it by wood in his Bari.

(3.) ON the other hand counsel for the State has supported the impugned judgment.