POULUS LAKRA Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This appeal has been preferred by these three appellants against the judgment of conviction and order of sentence passed by the Additional Sessions Judge, Fast Track Court No.-1, at Gumla, in Sessions Trial No. 245 of 2000. All the three appellants have been convicted by the trial court vide order dated 8/9-11/2002 for life imprisonment for causing murder of the deceased, for the offence punishable under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code. They are also punished for the rigorous imprisonment for five years under the offence punishable under Section 201 of the I.P.C. Against this judgment of conviction and order of sentence, the present appeal has been preferred

(2.) The prosecution case is as under:-

(3.) It is submitted by the counsel for the appellants that there are major omissions, contradictions and improvements in the depositions of the prosecution witnesses. This aspect of the matter has not been properly appreciated by the learned trial court and unnecessarily they have been treated as minor omissions, contradictions and improvements, and therefore, the judgment of conviction and order of sentence passed by the learned trial court deserves to be quashed and set aside.