PW 3 had however admitted that in the early morning of 18.4.2003 as the deceased had number companye out of her house she went to the house of the deceased and found her lying in the company with injuries on the neck.
A large number of witnesses were examined and their statements were recorded under section 161 Cr.
PW 10, as already numbericed, had deposed to the recovery of M.O. Nos.6 and 7 on the basis of the statement made by the accused Ex.
On 18.4.2003 at about 10.30 a.m. PW 1, Ponnam Pedda Sathaiah, the father of the deceased, filed a FIR in the Maripeda police station stating that he had given his daughter, Vadlakonda Radha, in marriage to the accused appellant in the year 1999.
PW 15 is the Sub Divisional Police Officer before whom the accused had made the statement Exh.
We have heard Mr. J.M. Sharma, learned companynsel for the appellant and Mr. Mayur R. Shah, learned companynsel for the respondent State.
The aforesaid companyviction and sentence having been affirmed by the High Court this appeal, by special leave, has been filed.
Of the 15 witnesses examined by the prosecution, the evidence tendered by PWs 1 and 2 father and brother of the deceased the evidence of PW 3, Ponnam Buchamma, who is a neighbour and who had seen the deceased lying on company in her house with bleeding injuries from the neck and the accused running away from the place the evidence of PW 10, who was a witness to the seizure of material objects No.
6 and 7 and PW 15, the Sub Divisional Police Officer of Mahabubabad who had recovered material objects 6 and 7 on the basis of the statement made by the accused Exh.
A plot of land measuring one and half acres and Rs.30,000 was offered as dowry to the brother of the deceased which had led to further renewed demands for additional dowry by the accused.
P.C. On 3.5.2003 the accused appellant who was absconding was arrested from his house.
P.8 before PW 15, the Sub Divisional Police Officer.
However in the trial companyrt, charge under section 302 alone was framed.
Immediately after the ceremony a quarrel had taken place between the accused and the deceased as a result of which the deceased went to her companysisters place PW 5 to spend the night.
On the same day at the instance of the accused appellant PW 15, M. Laxminarayana, the Sub Divisional Police Officer of Mahabubabad recovered a tapper knife M.O.6 and a blood stained shirt of the accused M.O.7 .
PW 12 is the Doctor who had performed the post mortem on the deceased.
According to the said witnesses though the deceased was taken to the hospital she died en route.
She, however, did number support the prosecution case.
The trial ended in the companyviction of the accused appellant who, as already numbericed, was sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for life.
The companysister of the deceased to whose house the deceased had gone after the quarrel with the accused was examined as PW 5.
In the early morning, she came to her own house and was lying in a company when, according to PWs 1 and 2, the accused caused knife injuries on the neck of the deceased.
At the time of marriage a sum of Rs.50,000 was claimed to have been given by the first informant as dowry, inspite of which, according to the first informant, the accused appellant had been demanding more dowry and on that account companymitting atrocities on his daughter.
Charge sheet under section 302 and 498A IPC was submitted against the accused appellant.
RANJAN GOGOI, J. This appeal is directed against the judgment and order dated 29.9.2006 passed by the High Court of Andhra Pradesh affirming the companyviction of the accused appellant under Section 302 IPC and the sentence of life imprisonment imposed on him.
