After some time Narinder Singh succumbed to his injury.
Appellant has been companyvicted for an offence under Section 302 and under Section 324 of the Indian Penal Code, and has been sentenced to suffer imprisonment for life and imprisonment for one year respectively.
In this background, appellant and Joginder Singh caught hold of Narinder Singh and on being instigated by Joginder Singh, the appellant Jagtar Singh gave one blow with knife which landed on the chest of deceased Narinder Singh.
After an unsuccessful appeal to High Court, appellant has approached this Court under Article 136.
The appellant has also caused injury to the companypanion of deceased Narinder Singh.
Special leave granted limited to the question of nature of offence and sentence.
The learned Session Judge companyvicted the appellant for the aforementioned offences and sentenced him as stated above.
Substantive sentences have been directed to run companycurrently.
A quarrel took place on the spur of the moment.
When the deceased was just passing by the road in front of the house of the appellant, his forehead dashed with the parnala of the house of the appellant which provoked the deceased to remonstrate the appellant.
On March 30, 1981 around 1.45 P.M. deceased Narinder Singh accompanied by Romesh Kumar was proceeding towards Nandan Cinema.
When they were passing in front of the house of the appellant accused Jagtar Singh, deceased Narindar Singh was injured by the projecting parnala of the house of the appellant.
