JUDGEMENT
PRATIBHA RANI, J. -
(1.) BY filing the present appeal, the Appellant impugns the judgment dated 27.10.2010 and order on sentence dated 29.10.2010
passed in Sessions Case No.91/09. The Appellant has been convicted
for having committed the offence punishable under Section 302 IPC
and sentenced to undergo life imprisonment with fine of Rs.5,000/
and in default to pay the fine, to undergo R.I. for six months.
(2.) IN brief, the prosecution's case is that on 12.07.2006 at 10.41 PM an information was received at PS Mandir Marg that a person was
lying unconscious near Nehru Chowk, RPF Office, Panchkuian Road,
Delhi. The information was recorded vide DD No.23 A Ex.PW10/A
and assigned to SI Rajwant who visited the spot and found one person
lying at the spot with injuries on his head. One half filled liquor bottle
alongwith empty tumbler, one plastic mug, one boiled egg and some
salt (on a piece of newspaper) were also found lying nearby. CAT
Ambulance A 11 was at the spot and Mr.Anil Aggarwal, Incharge of
Ambulance, RML Hospital, on checking, found the injured to be dead.
The injured was taken to Lady Hardinge Medical College/Smt.
S.K.Hospital, New Delhi where he was declared 'Brought Dead'.
Identity of the injured remained 'Unknown'. SHO Inspector Ram
Kishan also reached the spot, conducted necessary investigation there
and after obtaining MLC from the hospital, he sent rukka Ex.PW14/A
through Ct.Satish for registration of the case on the basis of which FIR
No.282/2006 was registered at PS Mandir Marg.
During investigation, two eye witnesses i.e. PW 2 Charan Singh @ Chunva and PW 3 'R' (name of the witness withheld being minor)
surfaced and they disclosed the identity of the offender to be Rakesh
Kumar Shukla i.e. the Appellant and of the deceased as Babloo. The
IO made efforts to ascertain the complete identity of the deceased.
Various search operations were conducted to apprehend the offender.
Ultimately on 17.07.2006 the Appellant was arrested from House
No.23, Chander Vihar, IIIrd Floor, Mandawali, Delhi and from there,
at his behest, one T shirt used by him to wipe out the blood from his
pant, was seized. The wooden support with which he hit the deceased
was also got recovered by him from the bushes inside the LHMC
Boundary Wall, opposite Block No.112 LHMC staff quarters. He was
sent for medical examination where the clothes which he was wearing
at that time, were also seized as they were also having some blood
stains.
(3.) ON arrival of father of the deceased and identification of the dead body, post mortem was got conducted on 18.07.2006. On
04.08.2006, opinion of the doctor was also obtained as to whether the injury could be caused with the wooden support. The opinion
confirmed that the injury suffered by the deceased could be caused by
the wooden support which was got recovered by the Appellant. The
postmortem report summarised the cause of death as :
"Cranio cerebral damage as a result of blunt force impact. All injuries are antemortem in nature and fresh in duration. Injury No.4 and 5 with their corresponding internal injury are sufficient to cause death in ordinary course of nature collectively as well as individually".
On completion of investigation, chargesheet was filed against the
Appellant Rakesh Kumar Shukla for committing the offence
punishable under Section 302 IPC. Subsequently CFSL result was also
obtained and filed in the Court.;
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