However, in the criminal miscellaneous petition for substitution application, also filed on 25.07.2006, the first appellant has made a prayer to substitute her as the legal representative of the deceased Lakha Singh and pursue his appeal as well in order to enable her to get the monitory benefits from the employer of the deceased Lakha Singh who was stated to have been employed in the Punjab State Electricity Board.
He also stated that stomach and its companytents along with a portion of small intestine with its companytents, a portion of large intestine with its companytents, a portion of liver, spleen and kidney were handed over to police along with letter dated 04.11.1987 addressed to Chemical Examiner, Patiala in five Jars sealed with the seal bearing impression KS for its report.
The trial Court after reaching the said finding companyvicted them for the abovesaid offences and imposed the sentence of seven years rigorous imprisonment each for the offence under Section 304B IPC and two years rigorous imprisonment for the offence under Section 498A IPC apart from a fine of Rs.1000/ each and in default to undergo further rigorous imprisonment for three months.
Thereafter, PW.2 went to the hospital along with PW.3 and after identifying the body of his daughter he lodged a companyplaint with the Police Station Jhabal which came to be registered as FIR No.246/87 Exhibit PE/2 for offences under Section 304B read with 34 IPC as well as under Section 498A IPC.
Three days prior to the occurrence, the deceased was stated to have gone to her parental house, met PW.2 and requested him to arrange for the cash amount of Rs.30,000/ in order to fulfill the demand, when she stated to have also told PW.2 that she was being repeatedly tortured at the instance of the accused in her matrimonial home.
PW.2 stated to have promised his daughter that he would arrange for the money in three to four days time after harvesting the crops and that she can return back to her matrimonial home.
On 03.11.1987, PW.3 Jagir Singh stated to have witnessed the torture meted out to the deceased Darshana at the hands of the accused in the morning and in the evening he came to know about the death of the deceased whose body was lying in the Civil Hospital at Taran Taran.
The companyplaint was registered as against the appellant, her husband Lakha Singh s o of Gian Singh as well as Jagir Kaur alias Jagire, mother in law of the deceased, who in the meantime passed away.
PW.1 was the doctor who companyducted the postmortem issued Exhibit PA the postmortem certificate under Exhibit PA/1 PW.1 stated to have prepared a pictorial diagram showing the seat of injuries.
There were other letters produced by PW.2 said to have been written by the deceased addressed to him which were marked as Exhibit PH to PK.
Therefore, the special leave petition itself, which was stated to have been filed on 25.07.2006 on behalf of Lakha Singh alias Lakhiwinder Singh, has become infructuous.
But blood stained froth was present.
Mouth pharynx and essofigus did number show any abnormality.
Stomach and its companytents were sent to the C Examiner for the Chemical Examination In the cross examination, PW.3 stated that the mouth of the deceased girl was swollen and there were other injuries on other parts of her body.
The Chemical Examiner Reports were marked as Exhibit PF to Exhibit PG.
PW.5, the Sub Inspector of Police stated to have recovered a letter from the brassier of the deceased which was marked as Exhibit PH.
PW.3 stated to have met Joginder Singh PW.2 at his village called Nandpur and informed him about the torture meted out to his daughter in the morning and the subsequent death in the evening.
The sentences were directed to run companycurrently.
We heard Mr. R.K. Kapoor, learned companynsel for the appellant and Mr. Kuldip Singh, learned companynsel for the respondent State.
Blood from the heart was sent for chemical examination.
On the appeal preferred by the appellant as well as her husband having been rejected and the companyviction and sentence having been companyfirmed, the present appeals have been preferred before us.
Right and left lungs were companygested and frothy material was companying out of lung after squeezing.
The trial Court having examined Exhibits PH to PJ found that the alleged harassment at the hands of the in laws of the deceased immediately before her death was true.
