Judgement

UNTWALIA, J.:- These are three appeals by special leave. One of them was directed from some interlocutory order of the High Court and had become infructuous. Mr. Yogeswar Prasad, learned counsel for the appellants asked us to dismiss that appeal as being infructuous. We accordingly do so. In one of the remaining two appeals the appellant is Kumari Shamim Rahmani. She has been convicted under Section 302, Indian Penal Code for committing the murder of Dr. Hari Om Gautam. A sentence of life imprisonment has been awarded to her. In the other appeal the appellant is Shri. Amir Ahmad Rahmani, elder brother of Shamim. He is said to have lodged a false information at the Police Station in connection with the said murder with the intention of screening his sister from legal punishment. He has been convicted under Section 201 of the Penal Code. The trial Judge imposed a sentence of three years rigorous imprisonment on him but the High Court has reduced it to one year.

2. The, murder of the Doctor was the culmination of the wrong and vicious path of love and lust between him and appellant Shamim. As is not uncommon in such type of love affairs, the girl found the arms of her lover g