JUDGMENT

Santosh Hegde, J.-Being aggrieved by the judgment of the High Court of Judicature Chhattisgarh made in Criminal Appeal No.1873 of 2000 whereby the High Court dismissed the appeal of the appellant filed against the judgment of the Sessions Judge, Raipur, Madhya Pradesh in Sessions Trial No. 412 of 1998 the appellant has preferred this appeal before us.

2. Brief facts necessary for the disposal of this appeal are as follows :

That the appellant and deceased Vidya Bai who is her sister-in-law used to have frequent quarrels. Consequent to which it is stated on 8th October, 1998 at about 2.30 p.m. the appellant poured kerosene oil on Vidya Bai and burnt her. It is the prosecution case that Vidya Bai on being so burnt ran out of the house when her husband Balram came to her rescue and tried to extinguish the fire, in this process it is stated even he suffered some burn injuries on his hands. Thereafter, it is the prosecution case that Vidya Bai was taken to the hospital where PW.17, Dr. Kiran Aggrawal examined her injuries and found that Vidya Bai suffered almost about 8.5% burns on her body. Though the police were informed of this incident, they were unable to record any statement