SHANTI DEVI Vs. STATE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) KAMLESHWAR Nath, J. Appellant, Smt. Shanti Devi, has been convicted under Section 302, I. P. C. and Section 309, 1. P. C. and sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life and for three months' rigorous imprisonment respectively. Her husband, Babu Ram, has been acquitted for the offence under Section 309 read with Section 109, I. P. C.

(2.) SMT. Shanti Devi, the appellant, aged about 30 years, is the wife of Babu Ram, a junior Engineer of P. W. D. who resided in quarter No. 175, I. T. I. Gora Bazar Colony, Rae Bareli. At the time of the commission of the offence on 7-3-1 982, the couple had a daughter, aged 9 years, and 2 sons aged 6 and I years. On that day the lady went along with the three children, through the agricultural areas around village Greef Saheb ka Purwa, P. S. Kotwali, district Rae Bareli, and reached a well situated in the field of Raghubir (P. W. 1 ). She threw the daughter in the well, and when the elder son cried, she picked the two sons and jumped into the well. Raghubir and others, working in the neighbouring fields, rushed to the well. They rescued the lady, and extracted the bodies of the two eider children, who had drowned the body of the youngest child could not be extracted at that time. It was found out later.