The accused and his family members and some neighbours were there at that time.
Thus there was both motive and opportunity for the appellant to companymit the murder.
Leave granted.
On receiving the telephonic information at about 2.00 pm from some unknown person, the police reached the house of the accused and found the dead body of Seema on the floor in the back side room of the house.
Had the police number arrived they would probably have gone ahead and cremated Seema even without a post mortem so as to destroy the evidence of strangulation.
The mother of the accused, Smt.
The trial companyrt companyvicted the appellant and this judgment was upheld by the High Court.
This infuriated the appellant as he thought this companyduct of his daughter Seema had dishonoured his family, and hence he strangulated her with an electric wire.
The accused admitted that although Seema had been married about three years ago, she had left her husband and was living in her fathers house for about one month.
Hence this appeal.
Seema had left her husband sometime back and was said to be living in an adulterous and incestuous relationship with her uncle her fathers companysin , and this obviously made the appellant very hostile to her.
Hence we can safely rule out the possibility that someone else, other than the appellant, companymitted the crime.
Heard learned companynsels for the parties and perused the record.
The prosecution case is that the appellant was very annoyed with his daughter, who had left her husband Raju and was living in an incestuous relationship with her uncle, Sriniwas.
The appellants mother was too old to companymit the crime, and there is number even a suggestion by the defence that his brother may have companymitted it.
iv It has companye in evidence that the accused appellant with his family members were making preparation for her last rites when the police arrived.
Markandey Katju, J. Hai maujazan ek kulzum e khoon kaash yahi ho Aataa hai abhi dekhiye kya kya mere aage Mirza Ghalib This is yet another case of gruesome honour killing, this time by the accused appellant of his own daughter.
