In Brief
The appellant was convicted of murdering Bhaiya alias Narendra under Section 302/34 IPC and sentenced to life imprisonment. He appealed, challenging the eyewitness testimony and claiming the FIR was filed too late. The Supreme Court upheld his conviction, holding that the eyewitnesses' consistent and natural testimony proved the appellant assaulted the victim with a knife on the neck, and the delay in filing the FIR was reasonable given the distance to the police station and the incident occurring at night. The Court reaffirmed that it does not reassess evidence but merely reviews whether lower courts correctly applied the law.
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