BRAHAMDEO PRASAD GUPTA Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The appellants have challenged the judgment of conviction and order of sentence, passed by the Court of the learned 6th Additional Sessions Judge, F.T.C., Palamau in Sessions Trial No. 244 of 2003. whereby they were convicted for the offence under Section 306 of the IPC and sentenced to undergo imprisonment for seven years and further convicted for the offences under Sections 498 -A, 120 -B and 201 of the IPC and sentenced to undergo imprisonment for two years.

(2.) THE case against the appellants was registered on 1.3.2001 at Chhatterpur Police Station on the basis of the First Information Report lodged by the informant Arun Chandra Gupta (PW 7). The informant's specific case is that his sister, namely Santosh Devi was married to the appellant No. 2, Sunil Kumar Gupta in the year 1992. The deceased used to live at her matrimonial house in the company of her husband and her parents -in -law, namely, the appellant No. 1 and the appellant No. 3 respectively. In the morning of 27.2.2001, the younger brother -in -law of the deceased conveyed telephonic information to the informant that his sister -in -law, namely, the deceased Santosh Devi had died.

(3.) ALL the three appellants were put on trial for the offences under Sections 302/34, 201, 498 -A and 120 -B of the IPC.