Judgment

S.P. Kurdukar, J.-These two criminal appeals are filed by the appel­lants accused challenging the legality and correctness of the judgment and order dates 1st September, 1997 passed by the High Court of Punjab & Haryana at Chandigarh whereby both the appellants were convicted under Section 304-B of the Indian Penal Code and were sentenced to suffer RI for a period of ten years and to pay a fine of Rs. 5,000/- each, in default thereof to undergo RI for a period of one year. The High Court after analysing all the circumstances and the evidence on record found that the order of acquittal dated 14th October, 1992 passed by the Addl. Sessions Judge, Sonepat for the aforesaid offence was unsustainable. Since the trial Court and the High Court differed in their conclusions as regards the guilt of the appellants, we have gone through both the judgments of the courts below as well as the material on record in order to satisfy whether the High Court was justified in reversing the order of acquittal in respect of both the appellants.

2. Prem Singh - appellant in Cr. Appeal No. 1032 of 1997 (original accused No. 1) is the son of Smt. Shanti, the appellant in Crl. Appeal No. 1077 of 1997