ANANDA MOHAN SEN Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Leave granted

(2.) Appellants are before us being aggrieved by and dissatisfied with the judgment of conviction and sentence dated 10.04.2006 passed by a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court in Criminal Appeal No. 351 of 2003, affirming a judgment of conviction and sentence passed by the learned Assistant Sessions Judge, Burdwan in Sessions Case No. 218 of 1995 under Sections 498A and 306 of the Indian Penal Code (for short, 'IPC'). The High Court, however, modified the sentence in respect of charge under Section 306 IPC, reducing it from five years to three years, so far as the first Appellant is concerned.

(3.) The prosecution case is as under :