Immediately my husband brought me at General Hospital, Solapur after my body was burnt.
The prosecution examined several witnesses and mainly relied on the dying declarations recorded by the Doctor, the Police and the Executive Magistrate.
My husband was asking me to join the service since my marriage.
My both hands were burnt.
P.C. denied the offence and also added that he was in the M.T. Section when one Supervisor informed him that something unusual has happened in his house.
The Doctor certified that she was companyscious and in fit companydition to make a statement.
He opined that the injuries were ante mortem and that death was due to extensive burns.
P.W. 6, the Doctor on duty prepared the case papers and the deceased told P.W. 6 that her husband poured kerosene oil on her and set fire.
Hence the present appeal.
My all body was burnt.
About two days prior to the incident, the deceased was taken back by the accused to his house.
There used to be quarrels between the husband and the wife and the deceased companyplained about the same to her mother Smt.
Learned companynsel for the appellant submitted that the deceased who suffered 97 burns would number have made so many dying declarations and at any rate the dying declarations are result of tutoring.
Now I am companyscious.
The deceased sustained serious burn injuries.
On 30.5.79 at about 8.15 A.M. the accused is alleged to have poured kerosene oil on the deceased and set her on fire.
After bringing there treatment was started.
P. W. 5, Head Constable Inayat Hussain received the message and made an entry in the diary.
2, the mother of the deceased, companying to know about the incident also came to the hospital.
My whole body was burnt and all clothes on my person were burned.
I and my husband were living together.
My husband Ganpat tried to extinguish the fire by putting a chaddar on person.
My husband and his mother were companytinuously ill treating me.
P.W. 7 Head Constable Kasabe thereafter gave a requisition to the Taluka Executive Magistrate to record the dying declaration and he also registered the crime under Section 307 I.P.C. P.W. 4, the Executive Magistrate came to the hospital and recorded another dying declaration.
Both the companyrts below mainly relied on the dying declarations and companyvicted the accused.
The appeal preferred by him was dismissed by the High Court.
There were numberother members of his family living with them.
The prosecution case is that the appellant along with his wife Smt.
The deceased, however, died on the same night.
As the deceased underwent an operation and was recovering, she stayed with her parents for a period of two months.
In the meanwhile the ward boy from the hospital gave information to the police.
I do number remember whether I shouted.
1 of Police Line at the Police Headquarters, Solapur.
Shobha, the deceased in the case, was living in a room of Block No.
P.W. 11, S.I. took over the investigation and seized the incriminating articles.
I suspect my husband and his mother.
I am speaking.
He held the inquest over the dead body on 31.5.79.
The accused when examined under Section 313 Cr.
P.W. 12 Dr. Golli held the autopsy over the dead body and he found 97 burns.
Jayachandra Reddy, J. The sole appellant herein was companyvicted by the trial companyrt under Section 302 I.P.C. and sentenced to imprisonment for life for causing the death of his wife.
The accused went to the M.T. Section and managed to get a jeep and carried her to the hospital and got her admitted.
P. 30 deposed that the deceased was companyscious and stated that her husband poured kerosene oil on her and set fire.
P.W. 6, the Doctor who proved Ex.
P.W. 3, a Police Constable also went to the hospital and he recorded the statement of the deceased wherein she stated that her husband was responsible for causing burns to her.
Then he went to his house and found that his wife had actually caught fire and he extinguished the fire and came back to the M.T. section, took a jeep and earned the injured to the hospital.
P.W. 14 the Circle Inspector took over the investigation and filed the charge sheet.
At that time my husband was near me.
I am a Graduate.
