The appellant, Hajimalang Matab Nadaf, was convicted by the Additional Sessions Judge, Solapur, under Section 307 of the Indian Penal Code for stabbing the injured witness, Shahid Gafoor Nadaf, with a knife in the stomach on 21 June 2019, following a prior altercation at a mosque, and was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for life. He was acquitted of charges under Sections 323, 504, and 506 IPC. The appellant challenged the conviction before the Bombay High Court (Circuit Bench, Kolhapur) on grounds including delay in FIR, reliance on a single interested eyewitness, weak forensic/discovery evidence, failure to consider his plea of alibi, and lack of established motive. The prosecution relied on the testimony of the injured witness (PW-1), the informant (PW-2), and two medical officers (PW-4 and PW-5), whose evidence established a grievous stab wound consistent with the seized knife. The judgment text as provided does not record the final appellate outcome, as it appears to be truncated.