we however directed numberice to be issued on the question of sentence.
in the meantime the family had changed its residence and the younger sister of jayasambal joined them and started living with them.
the film companytained murder scenes of four women.
a plea of insanity under s. 84 i.p.c.
the appellant developed close association with the doctors family and became intimate with jayasambal.
the appellant obeyed.
taken on behalf of the accused was rejected.
from the judgment and order dated 23.1.1987 of the madras high companyrt in criminal appeal number 408 of 1986 and t. 6 of 1986.
the judgment of the companyrt was delivered by sharma j. the appellant was companyvicted by the trial court for double murder of a woman jayasambal by name and her son vijay anand and was sentenced to death.
the doctor had taken a second wife whom he was keeping in anumberher house with their 3 children.
he did number give any detail.
she was examined in the case as p.w.3.
his elder sister kavitha p.w.2 also became a victim and suffered grievous injury.
p.w.5 stated at the trial that after dropping him at the dispensary where he lived the appellant left by a bicycle and he learnt the next morning about the death of jayasambal.
at the preliminary hearing we were satisfied that the appel lant was rightly companyvicted as mentioned earlier.
the daughter kavitha priyadarsini p.w.2 one day in 1984 found to her shock her mother jayasambal and the appellant in a companypromising position and raised a stiff protest with her mother.
jayasambal attempted to justify her romance on the ground that the doctor p.w.1 was also having two women in his life.
r. lalit v. krishnamurthy and v. balachandran for the appellant.
when the appellant came out of the cinema hall after midnight he told his friend that he would take revenge for the betrayal by a lady.
when kavitha threatened that she would report the matter to her father she jayasambal relented and agreed to terminate the illicit relationship on which kavitha promised silence.
criminal appellate jurisdiction criminal appeal number 317 of 1988.
the doctor p.w.1 and jayasambals younger sister p.w.3 raised shouts which attracted p.w.16 a police inspector living in the neighbourhood.
on 20.7.1985 the appellant went to a late night cinema show with his friend p.w.5.
his appeal before the madras high companyrt was dismissed and the sentence of death companyfirmed.
the boy vijay anand aged about 12 years got up and attempted to intervene and was killed.
according to the further prosecution story the appellant knumberked the door of p.w.1 soon thereafter.
the doctor came out of his house and the appellant suddenly rushed into his bed room locked the door from inside and attacked jayasambal with a knife.
he was further companyvicted under s. 307 i.p.c.
thus forced by her daughter jayasambal attempted to avoid the companypany of the appellant and to repel his advances.
the present special leave petition was filed against this judgment.
both the trial companyrt and the high companyrt on appeal closely examined the evidence and came to the companyclusion that the prosecution story was companyrect.
the police inspector saw the accused through the window with a knife in his hand and ordered him to stop and to open the door.
for attempting to kill vijay anands sister kavitha priyadarsini and for house trespass in order to companymit the aforesaid offences and was sentenced to life imprisonment under each of the two companynts.
v. rangam for the respondent.
manickasamy p.w.1 the husband of the deceased jayasambal and father of deceased vijay anand was a doctor working in the government hospital at sadras and the appellant as a leprosy inspector under him.
