PATNA, India, March 17 -- Patna High Court issued the following order on March 4:
Heard Mr. Ashok Kumar, learned counsel for the appellant and Mr. Parmeshwar Mehta, learned APP for the respondent-State.
2. Learned counsel for the appellant tried to argue the case on merits and alternatively submitted that even assuming the story of the prosecution as it is, the present is a case of single blow and there was no intention on the part of the appellant to cause death of the deceased and, therefore, the case of the appellant falls under Section 304 (Part II) of the IPC for which the punishment prescribed is ten years.
3. However, when this Court was not convinced with the submission canvassed by learned counsel for the appellant on merits, le...