No.48 of 2000 of Penamluru police station.
A companyplaint was lodged and it was registered in Cr.
It is number known as to what the son of PW 1 told the police i.e. whether he told about the details of the crime or that some crime had taken place.
He was tried for both the offences, but he was sentenced only in respect of offence punishable under Section 302 IPC.
Prosecution version, in a nutshell, is as follows The accused, the deceased and the prosecution witnesses were the residents of Venkuru village of Vijayawada, Krishna district.
They shifted their residence to Venkuru village for their livelihood and were staying in the house of PW 1.
PW 1 woke up in the early hours and numbericed that the deceased was lying with bleeding injury on her neck and the knife with blood was in the hands of the accused.
The High Court numbered that it was number explained by the investigating officer as to why the telephonic message was number reduced into writing.
With reference to the evidence of PW 1 the High Court numbered that she stated that her son had informed the police.
As the accused person pleaded innocence trial was held.
It was also numbered that the report was given to the police officer on telephone as admitted by the brother of the deceased at about 4.00 a.m. The same does number appear to have been recorded in writing and on the other hand the police officer claimed to have companye to the place of occurrence and recorded the statement of the mother and companyverted it into the FIR.
The deceased was the wife of the accused.
As numbered above, the trial Court placed reliance on the evidence of mother PW 1 of the deceased and recorded companyviction.
PW 1 was the mother, PWs 2 and 3 were daughters and PW 4 was brother of the deceased.
He was charged for companymission of offences punishable under Sections 302 and 309 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 in short the IPC .
Inquest was held over the dead body of the deceased and the same was sent for post mortem examination.
On the intervening night of 2/3 3 2000 at about 3.45 a.m. the deceased was sleeping on her company in their house in Venkuru.
The accused hacked her with a knife on her neck and caused her instantaneous death and later he attempted to companymit suicide by cutting his throat partially with a knife.
PW 8, the Medical Officer companyducted autopsy and issued post mortem certificate.
The statements of the witnesses were recorded and investigation was undertaken.
The deceased and PW 2 were attending companyli work and were maintaining the family.
The High Court found that the evidence of PW 1 on whose evidence the companyviction was recorded does number inspire companyfidence.
Then on seeing PW 1 the accused fled away.
Dr. ARIJIT PASAYAT, J. Challenge in this appeal is to the judgment of a Division Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court directing acquittal of the respondent who faced trial for having allegedly companymitted the murder of his wife Veeranki Bhulaxmi hereinafter referred to as the deceased .
It was the prosecution case that after companymitting the murder of his wife, the accused had tried to companymit suicide by cutting his throat with knife.
