Judgment

G.N. RAY, J.- This appeal is directed against the judgment dated 6-2-1985 passed by the High Court of Madhya Pradesh at Jabalpur in Criminal Appeal No. 279 of 1981 affirming conviction and sentence passed by the learned Sessions Judge, Shajapur, in Sessions Trial No. 28 of 1981. By the aforesaid judgment dated 24-9-1981, the learned Sessions Judge, Shajapur, convicted the accused/appellant Vijay under Section 302 IPC for murdering his wife Komal Bai and sentencing him to imprisonment for life for the said offence and also convicting him under Section 309 IPC for attempting to commit suicide and sentencing the accused/appellant rigorous imprisonment for one year by directing that both the sentences would run concurrently.

2. The prosecution case in short is that the appellant murdered his wife Kornai Bai aged 29 years at about 11.00 p.m. on 11-11-1980, by causing knife injuries on the neck and the chest of his wife. Such act of murder was committed in a room in the upper storey of the appellants home at Agar, Shajapur. The appellant along with his family members consisting of the deceased-wife, minor son, Chetan aged 9 years and infant daughter Kumari Seni, used to reside at