CHARANJIT SEN Vs. THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is yet another sordid incident of a hapless wife being battered to death by her unscrupulous husband on the fateful night of 20th November, 2004.

(2.) THE appeal at the instance of the accused/appellant is directed against the judgment and order of conviction and sentence dated 6th December, 2006 passed by the Additional Sessions Judge, Fast Track Court - II, Sealdah in Sessions Trial No. 7(4) of 2005 arising out of Sessions Case No. 103(3) of 2005. The appellant has been convicted for having committed an offence punishable under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (for short referred to as the I.P.C.) and sentenced to suffer imprisonment for life with a fine of Rs. 10,000/ - in default of which to suffer imprisonment for one year for the aforesaid offence.

(3.) ON the basis of the statement of Sayan Sen (P.W 3), recorded by S.I Proloy Bhattacharya (P.W 26), Topsia Police Station Case No. 139 of 2004 dated 21/11/2004 was initiated under Section 302 of the I.P.C. against the accused/appellant who was arrested on 27/11/2004 from a 'Dhaba' at Kharagpur in the district of Midnapore (West). Investigation culminated in the submission of the charge -sheet under Section 302 of the I.P.C. against the accused/appellant.