RAM PIAREY Vs. STATE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) APPELLANT Ram Piarey has been convicted under Sections 302 and 323, I. P. C. and sentenced to under go rigorous imprisonment for life, ann rigorous imprisonment for 6 months respectively, both sentences to run concurrently. His wife, Smt. Chandrawati, has been convicted under Section 302 read with Section 34,i. P, C. , and sen tenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for life, and under Section 307, I. P. C. sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for 5 years.

(2.) IN village Lachipur, P. S. Bhighapur, District Unnao, appellant Ram Piarey and his wife appellant Smt. Chaudrawati, lived in the house adjoining the house of former's brother Ambika, whose wife Smt, Rajana is said to have been murdered by the appellants. There was a partition of property between Ambika (P. W. 1.) and Ram Piarey accused in the times of their father, but there had been bickerings between them in connection therewith. The bickerings resulting in exchange of abuses of and on not only between male members but also between the ladies of the family.

(3.) CONSTABLE-Clerk I. H. Rizvi (P. W. 6) recorded the report and regis tered the case. S. I. Nooor Mohammad (P. W. 7) took up the investigation, and reached the spot at. 6 p. m. the same day. He found the dead body of Smt. Rajana on the roof of the house, from where he collected samples of blood stained earth. He prepared the inquest report and the connected papers, and despatched dead body, along with the papers, are sealed, through a constable for post-mortem examination. He recovered Gandasa and Pharsa from the house of the appellants on that very day, which he claimed to have been blood-stained, but he did not send them for chemical analysis.