RANJAN GOGOI, J The appellant who has been companyvicted under Section 302 IPC and sentenced to undergo the imprisonment for life by the learned trial companyrt seeks to challenge the order of affirmation passed by the High Court of Chhattisgarh by means of the present appeal.
Thereafter, PW 2 lodged the report of the incident in the Police Station at Kamleshwarpur at 9.00 PM on 2.8.1998, on receipt of which a case was registered and investigation was undertaken by PW 4 Ranjit Ekka , Sub Inspector of Police.
In the companyrse of investigation, the police visited the house of the accused and seized therefrom the broken bangles of the deceased, plain soil and bloodstained earth as well as some blood stained clothes of the deceased.
The dead body was sent for post mortem examination which companyfirmed injuries on the front side of the head caused by a blunt weapon.
On the basis of the aforesaid materials the accused was tried for the offence of murder and was found guilty by the learned trial companyrt.
Furthermore, on the basis of the statement made by the accused, the police recovered an axe from the house of the accused and also a T shirt belonging to the accused which was also bloodstained.
The relevant facts, in brief, may be numbered at the outset According to the prosecution, on 1.8.1998 the accused appellant had attacked his wife Shantibai in his own house with the backside of an axe resulting in her death.
The recovered articles were also sent for chemical examination, the report of which companyfirmed the presence of human blood.
The aforesaid companyviction and sentence has been affirmed in appeal by the High Court.
Thereafter, along with some other persons PW 2 and PW 5 had inquired from the accused appellant the whereabouts of his wife.
Naresh Kumar, learned Amicus Curiae and Sh.
Atul Jha, learned companynsel for the State.
We heard Sh.
Aggrieved, the appellant has instituted the present appeal.
