JUDGMENT

S.B. Majmudar, J.-The appellant who was convicted by the Trial Court for murder of his wife unsuccessfully carried the matter in appeal before the High Court and having lost there has landed in this Court by way of this appeal by special leave. A few relevant facts leading to these proceedings deserve to be noted at the outset.

Introductory Facts

2. The appellant is a practising doctor having two clinics, one is at Village Pakhopura in Amritsar District in State of Punjab. That clinic is run as a part of his residential house where his wife Madhu Bala aged 24 years met a tragic end. His other clinic is at Village Ratoke situated at a distance of about one kilometre from his residential house. The appellant was married to aforesaid Madhu Bala about one and a half years prior to the incident that took place on 4th September 1985. The case of the prosecution is that after his marriage with said Madhu Bala neither the appellant nor his mother got satisfied with the dowry which she brought and they continuously went on complaining about its insufficiency. On that account they used to ill-treat her. About four and a half months earlier to the date of the incident Madhu Bala visite