DEEP CHAND Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD Sri Anjani Kumar Dubey, counsel for the appellants, Ms. Usha Kiran, learned A.G.A. for the State, and perused the record.

(2.) BOTH the criminal appeals challenge the judgment and order dated 10.11.2004 passed by District & Sessions Judge, Kannauj in S.T. No. 295 of 2003, convicting and sentencing each of the appellant under section 302/34 I.P.C. with imprisonment for life, convicting and sentencing each one of them under section 498-A I.P.C. for 2 years R.I. and further convicting and sentencing them under section 201 I.P.C. for period of 3 years R.I. Since both the connected appeals emanate from the common judgment and are entwined by same facts and law, therefore, they have been heard together and are being decided by this judgment.

(3.) AFTER submission of the written report, chick report was prepared and case was entered in the G.D. at about 19.00 hours on 7.4.2003 being registering Case Crime No. 198 of 2003, under section 302/34, 498-A, 201 IPC and under section 3/4 of Dowry Prohibition Act, in police station-Tirwa, District- Kannauj, against the accused namely, Deep Chandra son of Ratan Lal, Ratan Lal son of Chandrashekhar, Smt. Munni Devi (mother-in-law), Sanjai son of Ratan Lal and Smt. Santoshi Devi wife of Sanjai. The distance of police station from the place of occurrence was about 10 km. The investigation of the case was taken up by C.O. Tirwa, District-Kannauj.