2 The learned counsel for the petitioner/appellant would submit that the deceased is none other than the father of A-1 and P.W.5 and husband of P.W.7 and brother of P.W.1. The motive for the commission of the offence is that there was misunderstanding between the deceased Thoppagounder and A-1 and ten days prior to the commission of the offence, the deceased went to the house of A-1 and asked for his wife-P.W.7 and he was informed that after A-1 was transferred to some other place, she would come to his home and subsequently, on 11.08.2015 at about 6.00 p.m., the in-laws of P.W.7 and A-1, came to the house of the deceased and P.W.1 was also present. There was a wordy altercation and the deceased had shown the chappal to A-1 and A-1 threatened him by showing the stone and also told that he would see what he will do and on the same day, at about 9.30 p.m., P.W.1 took food for his brother/deceased and proceeded to his house and he also brought his neighbour Sundarrajan [P.W.2] and there was a noise inside the house of the deceased and P.W.1 saw A-1 standing outside the house and inside the house, they saw A-2, A-3 and yet another known person, holding koduval and assaulting the deceased repeatedly.
