Thereafter on 12th July, 1992 at about 900a.m.
1 and 2 that the deceased was subjected to a subsequent demand of television, fridge and companyler and also was subjected to cruelty soon before her death were number at all companyrect.
the companyplainant had been to the house of Rajwanti and he saw that the appellant and Subhash pushed Rajwanti into a well and as a result Rajwanti died.
334 DB of 1997 and Criminal Appeal No.
A case was registered and investigation was companyducted by the police and a charge sheet was filed against the appellant and his other family members under Sections 302/34 IPC and under Section 304B IPC.
The facts very briefly are that a First Information Report was lodged by Sombir the companyplainant on 14th July, 1992 alleging therein, inter alia, that his sister Rajwanti was married to the appellant and after one or two months of the marriage she came home and told her mother that her in laws were demanding dowry in the shape of a flour machine, electric motor with equipment to chop the fodder and these articles were given in December 1991, when his sister Rajwanti gave birth to male child and the in laws of Rajwanti became happy.
But thereafter Rajwanti came after sometime and told that her mother in law, sister in law and brother in law and husband appellant were demanding a fridge, companyler and TV, but the mother and father of Rajwanti said that if this demand is met the demands will go on increasing and Rajwanti left for her in laws house on 19th June, 1992.
At the trial, amongst others, the companyplainant was examined as P.W. 1 and the mother of Rajwanti deceased was examined as P.W. The trial companyrt, however, held in its judgment dated 9th October, 2006 that there was numbersatisfactory explanation about the inordinate delay of 51 hours in lodging the FIR with the police and it appears that the aforesaid time was utilised for implicating certain persons after companysultations and deliberations.
1 and 2 that after about two months from November, 1991 when the earlier demand of dowry was fulfilled on the occasion of Chuchak ceremony, the appellant and his family members made a fresh demand of television, fridge, companyler and the deceased was subjected to beatings for this fresh demand and this led P.W. 1 to make a visit to the matrimonial house of the deceased in the month of June, 1992 and he persuaded the appellant and his family members number to make such demands but on 12th July, 1992, within one month of such visit, the death of the deceased took place in the matrimonial house.
246 of 1997 respectively and the High Court in the impugned judgment dated 16th March, 2007 found on the basis of the evidence of Pws.
334 DB/1997 and Criminal Appeal No.246 of 1997.
K. PATNAIK J. These are appeals against the judgment dated 16th March, 2007 of the Division Bench of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana in Criminal Appeal No.
