RAM KHILARI Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is an appeal against a judgment and order dated 10-2-1978 passed by Sri Ramji Lal, the then I Addl. Sessions Judge, Etah by which he has convicted all the four appellants under sections 302/34 IPO and has sentenced each of them to undergo imprisonment for life.

(2.) SMT Rani Devi was the daughter of PW 2 Parshadi Lal complainant and was married to Ram Khilari appellant. Kirpal Singh appellant is the elder brother of Ram Khilari appellant. SMT. Joja alias Chameli appellant is the wife of said Kripal Singh appellant. SMT. Jethi alias Bataso appellant is the mother of Ram Khilari and Kirpal Singh appellants.

(3.) IN support of its case the prosecution examined PW 2 Parshadi Lal and his brother-in-law PW 8 Har Prasad who deposed about the harassment of Smt. Rani Devi, receipt of letters and their visit to the house of the appellants to find Rani Devi lying ill and her subsequent death etc. PW 1 Sheo Swarup Kulshrestha is the clerk in the office of Supdt. of District Hospital, Etah and PW 6 K. P. Singh Yadav is the then compounder of the Police Hospital, Etah. They deposed about the sending of the viscera to the Chemical examiner. PW 3 Sadhu Ram was examined to depose that Ram Khilari appellant had once come to him to get the letter written from him. PW 4 constable Ramvir Singh had taken the dead body of Smt. Rani Devi for post mortem examination. PW 5 Mahesh Prakash, a court reader, was a formal witness. PW 7 Brahma Shankar Saxena deposed about the performance of the marriage of Smt. Rani Devi with Ram Khilari appellant and some dispute about th? dowry at that time. PW 9 Siya Ram Gangwar was examined to prove the panchnama of the dead body of Smt. Rani Devi prepared by Gauri Shanker SI.