Advocates :
Appellant : Mr. B. Prasad, Amicus Curiae
Respondent : Mr. R.R. Kaushik, Additional Public Prosecutor,
Assam
Date of Hearing : 06.06.2025 & 12.06.2025
Date of Judgment & Order : 12.06.2025
BEFORE
HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE MANISH CHOUDHURY
HON’BLE MRS. JUSTICE MITALI THAKURIA
JUDGMENT & ORDER [ORAL]
[Manish Choudhury, J]
The instant criminal appeal from Jail under Section 383, Code of Criminal
Procedure, 1973 [‘CrPC’ or ‘the Code’, for short] is preferred against a
Judgment and Order dated 21.12.2020 passed by the Court of learned
Sessions Judge, Karbi Anglong at Diphu in Sessions Case no. 41/1998. By
the Judgment and Order dated 21.12.2020, the accused-appellant has been
convicted for the offence of murder under Section 302, Indian Penal Code
[IPC] and he has been sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life and to
pay a fine of Rs.10,000/-, in default of payment of fine, to undergo rigorous
imprisonment for one year. It has been ordered that the period of detention
already undergone by the accused-appellant shall be set-off under Section
428, CrPC.