The appellant Mukesh was convicted by the Additional Sessions Judge, Saket, New Delhi under Section 302 IPC for the murder of Rishipal, a fellow tailor with whom he shared a rented room, following a scuffle on 13 December 2015 in which Rishipal was stabbed in the abdomen with a pair of scissors and subsequently died. The Trial Court relied on the eyewitness testimony of PW-1 Lalit (who witnessed the scuffle), oral dying declarations made by the deceased to PW-4 Rajesh and PW-8 ASI Rahees Pal (treated as dying declarations under Section 32 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872), and the post-mortem report which confirmed the stab injury was sufficient to cause death in the ordinary course of nature. The Trial Court held that the ingredients of Section 300(3) IPC were established and sentenced the appellant to life imprisonment with a fine of Rs. 2,000. Before the Delhi High Court, the appellant's counsel confined the challenge solely to the question of whether the offence should be reduced from murder under Section 302 IPC to culpable homicide not amounting to murder under Section 304 Part II IPC, arguing absence of premeditation, no prior animosity, intoxication of both parties, and the fact that the appellant did not flee the scene. The judgment text provided does not record the final decision of the High Court on this appeal.