GURMEET SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) PRESENT appeal has been preferred by Gurmeet Singh. He along with his parents, was tried in a case FIR No. 269 dated 16 -08 -1999 registered at Police Station Samana under Section 306/34 IPC. The Court of Additional Sessions Judge, Patiala vide its impugned judgment dated 5th February, 2002, acquitted parents of the Appellant, but held him guilty of an offence punishable under Section 306 IPC. Vide a separate order of even date, the Appellant was sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of five years and to pay a fine of Rs. 1,000/ -, in default of payment of fine to further undergo rigorous imprisonment for six months.

(2.) THE Appellant was married with Paramjit Kaur eight years before the occurrence. Occurrence, in the present case, had taken place on the night intervening 15th and 16th August, 1999, when Paramjit Kaur consumed Aluminum Phosphide, an insecticide, and died as a result of poisoning. Chanan Singh, father of the deceased Paramjit Kaur, made a statement Ex.PD before Inspector Manjit Singh, SHO Police Station Samana, on the basis of which formal FIR Ex.PD/2 was registered.

(3.) THE above said FIR was investigated and a report under Section 173 Code of Criminal Procedure was submitted.