PINKU RAM Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Heard Mr. A.K. Chaturvedy, learned counsel for the appellant and Mr. Saket Kumar, learned A.P.P. for the State.

(2.) This appeal is directed against the judgment and order of conviction and sentence dtd. 20/12/2014 (sentence passed on 22/12/2014) passed by Sri Krishna Kumar, learned Judicial Commissioner-IV, Ranchi in Sessions Trial No. 467/2013, arising out of Doranda P.S. Case No. 266/2012, corresponding to G.R. Case No. 3218/2012, whereby and whereunder the appellant has been convicted for the offence u/s 302 of the Indian Penal Code and has been sentenced to undergo R.I. for life along with a fine of Rs.5,000.00and in default of payment of fine he has to undergo S.I. for 06 months.

(3.) A First Information Report was instituted by Viraj Kachhap wherein it has been stated that on 8/6/2012 at about 6:30 A.M. his nephew Markus Sunwar had come to his house and informed that the sister of the informant Namita Arya has been murdered near her hostel at South Office Para. On such information when he and Markus Sunwar went to South Office Para they saw his sister lying on the road on her stomach and there were several injuries on her neck caused by sharp cutting weapon. Her bag was lying besides her. In the palm of both her hands were tufts of hair. It has been stated that his sister was staying at Sharma Girls Hostel for the last one year. She used to do the job of cooking and stayed at the Hostel. Her husband used to live separately for the last 2-2- years and had solemnized another marriage since he had a suspicion about an illicit affair between his sister and Pinku Ram (appellant). It has been alleged that Pinku wanted to marry the sister of the informant but she was not agreeable. In the previous evening his sister had come to his house and she had returned to the hostel with a boy named Sonu. On the date of occurrence, she was to go to Patna to attend a marriage ceremony with Markus and she had called Markus to South Office Para but when he reached she was found lying dead in the road. Suspicion has been raised against Sonu and Pinku of committing the murder.