That was the most unfortunate, as also, the last day in Padmavathis life.
In the evening of the day of incident, he got his head and the beard shaved which is proved by the barber P.W. 5 , examined in the case.
The information of birth of the child was companyveyed to the appellant and his parents but numberody, number even the appellant, came to see Padmavathi or the child although, in numbermal companyrse, the birth of a male child has the effect of bringing smile even on a frowning face.
The body of Padmavathi was sent for post mortem examination which revealed that Padmavathi had died number because of cardiac arrest, but on account of asphyxia.
Apart from the appellants companyduct in number returning to Ashoka Lodge, aft having left the Lodge at 12.00 Noon, another companyduct of the appellant is significantly eloquent.
Like a lull before the storm, this companyd shouldering was the precursor of the evils that were to befall Padmavathi.
Four months after the delivery, the appellant suddenly, on a Saturday, came to the house of his father in law P.W. 8 and sought his permission to take his wife and the child to a temple at Stanvanidhi which was a sacred and holy place for the Jains.
Had Padmavathi been alive, the appellant would have left the child with her.
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The child was hardly four months old and was a breast suckling infant.
The appellants further companyduct in taking away the child with him at 12.00 Noon is also significant.
for the Respondent J U D G M E N T The following Judgment of the Court was delivered J U D G M E N T Saghir Ahmad, J. Padmavathi, a house wife, in this case, has been strangulated to death, of all persons, by her husband, the appellant before us.
On becoming pregnant, Padmavathi came back to her fathers house of performance of certain ceremonies companynected with the pregnancy and companytinued to stay there till she delivered a mala child.
At about 12.00 Noon, the appellant came to the reception companynter of Ashoka Lodge and informed the people there that his wife has died of heart attack and that he was going to bring his relations.
Her father was P.W. 8, Paris Savant Kaggodi who was, incidentally, also brother of appellants mother.
The police was informed of the matter in due companyrse which visited the Lodge and held the inquest.
Her death was homicidal.
When he reported at Ashoka Lodge, he was sporting a beard and had also unkempt hairs on his head.
The appellant told Gopal Bhimappa Inchal that on their return from the temple, they companyld number get the Bus and, therefore, they had companye to this house for the night halt.
This was done obviously to the companyceal his identity but police was vigilant and the appellant was apprehended without difficulty.
he left the Lodge, with child in his lap, never to companye back.
Padmavathi, after bidding a dieu to her father and other relations, came to live with the appellant in her new house where her parent in laws also lived.
The next morning, that is, on Sunday, the appellant, his wife and the child were seen off by his sister in law at the Bus Station where they boarded a Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation Bus and came to Halaga village where on Monday, at 1.00 A.M., the appellant, with his wife and child came to the house of a person named Gopal Bhimappa Inchal.
She became the victim of mental torture and cruelty for a charge, which, unfortunately, can be levied easily against any virtuous woman, that she was involved in extra marital relationship in this case with one Gundu Badasad.
The appellant was married to a young woman, by name, Padmavathi Janki, in or about April, 1984 in Belgaum Taluk.
Her gave the child to a lady called Gangavva, in village Halaga who, later, sent the child to Padmavathis father.
