CUTTACK, India, May 1 -- Orissa High Court issued the following order on March 31:
1. The present appellant and one Kapila Pradhan faced trial in ST Case No.17/07 of 2001 in the Court of Learned Additional Sessions Judge, Deogarh for committing the murder of one Sankar Mukhi. While Kapila Pradhan was acquitted, the present appellant was convicted for the offence under section 302 of the IPC and sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life.
2. Prosecution case, briefly stated, is as follows.
On 14.08.2000, in village Karlaga, Manoharpur, under Kundheigola Police Station in the district of Deogarh, one Balaram Behera came and informed the informant, Naveen Mukhi that his father had been killed by the appellant. It so happened that on that d...