Their lordships Mr. Justice Walsh and Mr. Justice Stuart disposed of the appeal of Asghar against the sentence of death passed on him by the Sessions Judge of Budaun on a charge of having murdered an old man named Chiddo. It was alleged that the accused decoyed the deceased into the house of Amirulla under the pretext of getting him a goat for sale, and throttled him to death. Amirulla was alleged to have abetted the crime by holding the deceased’s legs. The motive of the murder was suggested to have been the greed of taking possession of Rs. 75 which the deceased had with him on selling his house. Their Lordships said it was quite clear that the evidence of the daughter of Amirulla, as the Sessions Judge had found, was tampered with by the Sub-Inspector himself or through his instrumentality apparently with the insidious and thoroughly unjust motive of persuading her to give the best evidence against Asghar and to say as little as she could against her father who was tried with him.
