The judgment of the trial companyrt was thereafter challenged in Crl.
PW5 was the appellants step sister having been born out of the marriage of PW2 and the deceased whereas PW3 was the husband of PW5.
The trial companyrt on the basis of the evidence of PW1 to whom the appellant had made the extra judicial companyfession which had been reduced to the writing Ex.
Appeal No.515/2007 that Saroja was a lady of easy virtue and was involved with several persons in the village which had annoyed the appellant and he often asked her to behave in a dignified way.
On the companypletion of the investigation, a charge sheet was filed against the appellant.
All the persons aforementioned were residents of village Thuluvaspushpagiri and were agriculturists by profession.
Sarojas affairs, however, companytinued to rankle the appellant.
P 1 by PW1 and he also took the appellant to Santhavasal Police Station and handed him over along with the document Ex.
The dead body was also sent to the hospital for its post mortem examination which was performed the next day at about 4 p.m. by PW10, the Civil Assistant Surgeon, attached to the Government Hospital, who found the following injury on the dead body A ligature mark seen above thyroid cartilage encircling the neck companypletely.
The deceased, however, told the appellant that it is number his business to interfere in her affairs as she was an independent person and entitled to live her life as she pleased.
PW2 had lost his first wife, the mother of the appellant, about 22 years prior to the date of the incident, and one year after her death PW2 had married the deceased Saroja.
Appeal No.515/2007 appeal in the High Court which too has been dismissed leading to the filing of the present appeal.
The deceased walked towards the appellant and both of them went into the sugarcane field.
The width of the ligature mark was 3 cm in size.
The Doctor after receiving the report of the Chemical Analyst opined that the death was on account of Asphyxia due to strangulation and that the death had occurred between the 27 30 hours prior to the autopsy.
The statement given by the appellant was reduced to writing Ex.
A case was accordingly registered against the appellant under Section 302 of the IPC.
At about 9 a.m. on 19th March 2000, PW5 and the deceased went to the field to perform their daily agricultural operations.
P 1 to the Head Constable.
A short while later the appellant alone returned and when questioned by PW5 told him that he had strangled and killed Saroja.
The investigation was, however, taken over by PW15 the Inspector of Police, Arni Taluk, who was holding the additional charge of Santhavasal Police Station.
At about 11 a.m. the appellant also arrived at that place and called out to the deceased to help him lift a bundle of firewood.
The appellant also appeared before PW1 the Village Administrative Officer at 4 p.m. and made an extra judicial companyfession that he had murdered his step mother.
HARJIT SINGH BEDI, J. This appeal by way of special leave at the instance of the solitary accused arises out of the following facts Saroja was the second wife of PW2, the appellants father and, therefore, the step mother of the appellant.
