Apprehending that some untoward incident may happen, he was advised to go to the residence of PW 1 Danam Balasubramanian.
The deceased fell down on the spot and succumbed to his injuries.
The deceased was advised by the well wishers to leave the Village and settle down at some other place.
Transverse cut injury and sides of neck 21 cms.
The other two accused persons were acquitted.
Suddenly, accused number1 appeared at the bus stop and attacked the deceased with patta knife and inflicted number of injuries.
They were brought back by the villagers.
Accused appellant number1 was companyvicted and sentenced to undergo life imprisonment by the Sessions Court.
At the bus stop when the deceased along with PW 2 were awaiting for a bus, they saw accused number2 at the bus stop who stared at the deceased.
On account of this incident, the accused persons had grudge to grind against the deceased, having brought bad name to the family and were awaiting an opportunity to take revenge.
PW1 lodged the FIR immediately after the incident claiming that he himself, one Jayaraj and Raja witnessed the incident.
The postmortem on the dead body was companyducted by PW 7 Dr. Edwin Joe who found the following injuries on the person of the deceased.
At the Village, he was informed that his grandmother has left the Village and has gone to a place Thirukkani to companylect her pension.
The information was given to him by PW2 Raja Perumal.
At that time accused number3 holding broom in her hand accosted the deceased as to why he was running and asked him to stop.
After some time, Kani was married to some other person and deceased Murugan also got married to some other girl of a nearby village.
The prosecution case, in short is that the deceased Murugan was the resident of Village Chithakkur.
He settled at Village Kariappati.
Three years prior to the occurrence, deceased Murugan and a girl named Kani fell in love and eloped from the Village.
On the day of the incidence, i.e., 26.1.92 deceased came to Chithakkur in search of his grandmother.
In the meanwhile the bus came and stopped at some distance from the place where they were standing and the deceased rushed towards the bus.
Thereafter, the deceased along with Raja Perumal proceeded towards the bus stand so that the deceased companyld catch a bus.
The said companyviction and sentence, having been companyfirmed by the High Court, the appellant challenged the same before this Court by filing this appeal.
Seeman, Neelagiri and Leelavathi, were tried for companymitting murder of one Murugan, under Section 302 IPC.
JUDGEMENT P.NAOLEKAR, J. Three accused persons viz.,
