RAMAN KUMAR Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE appellant has filed the present appeal against judgment and order of sentence dated 25.1.2000 of the Sessions Judge, Gurdaspur (hereinafter described as 'the trial Court') vide which he has been convicted under Section 304B of the I.P.C. and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for ten years and to a pay a fine of Rs. 5000/ -. In default of payment of fine, he has been directed to undergo further rigorous imprisonment for four months.

(2.) ON 23.10.1992 at about 2.00 P.M., the appellant is said to have poured kerosene on his wife -Smt. Seema Wanti and set her on fire. She breathed her last on 30.10.1992, but before dying, she left behind a dying declaration recorded in the presence of PW2 -Dr. Sudhir Khichi, who attested the same.

(3.) THE police, after completion of investigation, submitted a report under Section 173 Cr.P.C. as the complicity of the appellant and his mother in the commission of the offences punishable under Sections 498A, 304B/ 34 of the I.P.C. was, prima facie, established.