SOM HEMBROM Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE appellant was charged with, tried and convicted for offences under Sec. 302 of the Indian Penal Code, by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Rajmahal in Sessions Trial No. 190 of 1998 and was accordingly sentenced to undergo life imprisonment.

(2.) THE gist of the charge is that on 2.3.1998, the appellant had killed his own wife, namely, Hopenmai Murmu at his own house situated at village Khokhrotola, P.S. Rajmahal within the District of Sahibganj.

(3.) THE prosecution case is that on 3.3.1998 at about 11.00 a.m. when the informant Shibu Murmu (PW 6) was at his house, one Tala Hembrom (PW 8) came to him and informed that his brother -in - law (Som Hembrom) had brutally assaulted his wife, Hopon Mai Murmu and had brought her to his (Tala Hembrom's) house at 11.00 p.m. in the night and after sometime, she had died. He also informed that the villagers had caught hold of Som Hembrom (appellant) and had detained him. On this information, the informant Shibu Murmu (PW 6) went to the house of the village Headman Jhore Hembrom at village Khokhro Tola where he saw the dead body of his sister. The appellant Som Hembrom was also present there whom the villagers had detained. The police arrived and recorded his fardbeyan.