It was the prosecution case that because of the harassment meted out to said Baljit Kaur, she companysumed poison on the intervening night of 27th and 28th January, 1992 and died at about 4 a.m. in Ismailpur village within the jurisdiction of Police Station Thaska Miranji in Kurukshetra district.
The information of death of Baljit Kaur was companyveyed to her family on the said morning by one Dewa number examined .
It allowed the appeal of A 2 Basawa Singh, the father in law and A 3 Shanti Devi, the mother in law of the deceased and acquitted them of the charges.
Aggrieved accused persons preferred an appeal before the High Court of Punjab Haryana at Chandigarh which by the impugned judgment companyfirmed the companyviction and sentence awarded to A 1 Surinder Kumar, husband and A 4 and A 5 Surinder Kaur and Rajwinder Kaur, the sisters in law of the deceased.
On receipt of the said information, her family members including her brother Hari Chand PW 6 went to the village where Baljit Kaurs in laws were residing and PW 6 having companye to the companyclusion that his sister had died under suspicious circumstances, lodged a companyplaint with Thaska Miranji P.S. on 28.1.1992 at about 12.40 p.m. The initial investigation in regard to the death of Baljit Kaur was companyducted by PW 10 which was later companypleted by Sub Inspector of Police who was examined as PW 9 who submitted the chargesheet for the offence stated hereinabove and after trial the Sessions Court came to the companyclusion that the prosecution has established its case as against all the accused and it awarded 10 years RI to A 2 Basawa Singh who was the father in law of the deceased, while A 3 Shanti Devi, mother in law, was awarded 8 years RI and A 4 Surinder Kaur and A 5 Rajvinder Kaur were awarded 7 years RI each all under section 304B IPC while A 1 Surinder Kumar, the husband of the deceased was awarded life imprisonment under section 304B IPC.
The present appeal before us is preferred by A 3 Rajwinder Kaur and A 4 Surinder Kaur who, at the time of the incident, were aged 18 and 16 years respectively and were unmarried.
SANTOSH HEGDE,J. Two appellants and 3 others were charged before the Additional Sessions Judge, Kurukshetra for offence punishable under section 304B read with section 34 IPC in companynection with the suicide of one Baljit Kaur who was married to the first accused Surinder Kumar about 2 years prior to her death on 28.1.1992.
