ORDER

The appellant was convicted for the offence punishable under sections 302 IPC and 201 IPC and sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life on the substantive part of the charge under section 302 IPC. He was also sentenced to undergo for a period of two years on the charge under section 201 IPC by Addl. Sessions Judge, Thane for having committed the murder of his wife on the intervening night of 1.6.1992 and 2.6.1992. The said conviction and sentence having been upheld by the High Court of judicature at Bombay, the appellant is before us in this appeal.

2. Briefly, the prosecution case is that the relationship between the appellant and his wife-deceased was not cordial since the appellant was addicted to alcohol and he was suspecting the character of his wife. Consequent upon that at one point of time she left the appellant and started residing with her father. Thereafter, there was a settlement pursuant to which deceased came back to the appellant s house. It is further the case of the prosecution that on the night between 1st and 2nd June, 1992 there was a quarrel between the appellant and the deceased. During the said quarrel between husband and wife, the appellant, it is alleg