Each was sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life and pay a fine of Rs.1,000/ with default stipulation for the first offence and 5 years imprisonment and fine of Rs.500/ with default stipulation for the latter offence.
PW6 went to the house of PW2 and informed about the same.
Background facts in a nutshell are as under Koduri Kasiviswanadham PW 2 is having some agricultural lands at Mallavaram.
Before the High Court challenge was to the judgment of the learned IInd Additional Sessions Judge, West Godavari, Eluru whereunder appellant and his mother were found guilty of offences punishable under Section 302 read with Section 34 IPC and Section 201 IPC read with Section 34 IPC.
Thereafter both the accused showed the dead body, which was in the field of sugar cane garden of China Venkat Rao PW9 .
Accused persons pleaded innocence.
PW2 sent a word to the Village Administrative Officer.
P4 observation report and seized M.Os.
Thereafter he held inquest on the dead body of the deceased from 10.30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the presence of PWI and another and examined the witnesses.
To support the case of the prosecution, it examined 15 witnesses and marked 21 documents besides the case properties M.Os.1 to 11.
Considering the evidence on record the trial Court ordered companyviction and sentence as afore stated.
PW10 companyducted autopsy and found 13 injuries.
Bolla Venkat Rao PW6 heard cries from the farmhouse of PW2, and when he enquired from Al, he informed that his father came in an intoxicant companydition asking him and his mother A2 to companye to Pederu and was beating A2 and therefore they both beat the deceased.
In appeal before the High Court A 2 i.e. mother of the accused was found number guilty and it directed her acquittal.
Then PW2 questioned the accused, for which Al stated that his father came in an intoxicant companydition and was beating his mother A2 and in companyrse of the quarrel he hacked his father with Yerukalakatti and A2 also hacked the deceased.
PW15 prepared Ex.
PW15 took up investigation.
After inquest, the dead body was sent to post mortem examination.
On 29.2.1996 both the accused and Venkatarao hereinafter referred to as the deceased were quarreling with each other at the farmhouse and at about 12.00 midnight.
Thereafter he gave Ex.
Thereafter he visited the place where the dead body was found lying and declaration report was drafted.
At that place, he seized bloodstained earth and companytrol earth.
There is a farmhouse companytaining one room in his fields.
P7 report to the police on 1.3.1996 at 5A.M. PW13 who received Ex.
By the time he went to Chagallu Police Station, both the accused were present in the police station.
7 and 8 companytrol earth and bloodstained earth .
PW2 along with some other witnesses went to farmhouse and at that time both the accused were ready having packed their luggage to leave the place.
Thereafter Al led him and the mediators to the Makamshed of Viswanadham and produced the bloodstained knife, bloodstained T Shirt and Lungi and they were seized under Ex.
He opined that the deceased died of shock due to hemorrhage on account of injury to vital organs.
After companypletion of investigation, PW15 filed a charge sheet.
Dr. ARIJIT PASAYAT, J Challenge in this appeal is to the judgment of the Division Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court holding the appellant guilty of offences punishable under Section 302 and Section 201 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 in short the IPC .
