JUDGEMENT
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(1.)This appeal is filed
against the judgment of the learned Principal
Sessions Judge, Ranga Reddy District in
S.C. No.608 of 2002. The appellant, who is
the sole accused before the learned Sessions
Judge, is convicted for the offence under
Section 302 IPC and sentenced to
imprisonment for life.
(2.)The case against the accused is
that he killed his wife, Saroj, whom he
married two years earlier to the incident; he
used to harass the deceased by asking her
to get money from her mother and that on
27-12-2001 he killed her at the house where
he was living with the deceased as a tenant
at L.B. Nagar, owned by the family of
PW-10 by stabbing her. According to the
prosecution case, the accused killed the
deceased, somewhere in the morning and
locked the doors from outside and went
away. PW-1, a co-tenant saw the dead
body of the deceased in the locked room.
Thereafter information was sent to police.
The police broke upon the lock and found
the dead body. The evidence against the
accused is only circumstantial i.e., of his
living with the deceased in the house that is
being found locked from outside, while the
dead body was lying in the house and
recovery of certain material objects.
(3.)Accepting the prosecution evidence
of the accused killing the deceased, locking
the door from outside and the recoveries,
the learned Sessions Judge convicted the
accused.
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