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(Judgment was delivered by SUNDER MOHAN, J.) The appellant/sole accused has challenged the judgment of conviction and sentence, dated 05.02.2015, passed by the II Additional District and Sessions Court, Villupuram at Tindivanam, in S.C.No.306 of 2015. The appellant was convicted and sentenced by the trial Court as follows :

Conviction Sentence Section 302 IPC Life Imprisonment and to pay a fine of Rs.5,000/-, in default, to undergo Simple Imprisonment for six months Section 380 IPC Rigorous Imprisonment for 2 years and to pay a fine of Rs.1,000/-, in default, to undergo Simple Imprisonment for one month The sentences were ordered to run concurrently

3.The Inspector of Police (P.W.13), on receipt of the FIR, went to the scene of occurrence at about 15.30 hours on the same day and prepared the Observation Mahazar, marked as Ex.P2, and Rough Sketches, marked as Exs.P11 and P12. Thereafter, P.W.13 conducted inquest between 04.00 p.m. https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis and 05.00 p.m. on the same day and prepared the Inquest Report Ex.P13. He sent the body of the deceased to the Tindivanam Government Hospital, through Constable P.W.11 for postmortem. Thereafter, P.W.13 seized the blood stained earth and earth which was not blood stained, bed-sheet and blood stained pillows through a Seizure Mahazar (Ex.P4). On 13.07.2015, P.W.13 arrested the appellant at about 08.00 a.m. in the presence of Village Administrative Officer (P.W.12) and he recorded the confession of the appellant and on the basis of the admissible portion of the confession, he seized the jewels, which are said to have been taken from the house of the deceased, from the possession of the appellant. Thereafter, he seized the weapon used by the appellant for causing the death of the deceased and examined witnesses and filed the final report for the offences under Sections 302 and 380 IPC.

4.On appearance of the appellant, the provisions of Section 207 Cr.P.C. were complied with and the case was committed to the Court of Session in S.C.No.306 of 2015 and was made over to the II Additional District and Sessions Court, Villupuram at Tindivanam, for trial. The trial https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis Court framed charges for the offences under Sections 302 and 380 IPC against the appellant and when questioned, the appellant pleaded 'not guilty'.

16.P.W.5 is the witness for the Observation Mahazar prepared by P.W.13. P.W.6 is the Head Clerk of Judicial Magistrate Court No.1, Tindivanam, who had sent the seized articles to the Forensic Sciences Laboratory on the orders of the learned Judicial Magistrate No.1, Tindivanam. P.W.7, the Sub-Inspector of Police, registered FIR on the complaint given by P.W.1.