JUDGMENT

K. JAYACHANDRA REDDY, J. - The appellant Smt. Nirmal Devi, who is the sole accused in the case, has been found guilty under S. 302, R.P.C. of J. & K. and sentenced to imprisonment for life for the offence of committing the murder of her husband by administering poison. The appeal filed by her was dismissed by the High Court. Hence the present appeal.

2. The appellant was married to the deceased Girdhari Lal about 17 or 18 years prior to the occurrence. For 11 or 12 years they lived together. Later the appellant went to her parental house without the consent of the husband. Thereafter she never returned to the house of the husband. It is alleged that in her parental house she started leading an adulterous life which was resented to by the deceased. About 13 or 14 months prior to the occurrence she joined training course of midwifery in a hospital at Jammu and she continued her activities of indulging into immoral acts. About 15 or 16 days before the date of the occurrence, the appellant gave birth to an illegitimate daughter in the Jammu Hospital. After that she went to her parental house in village Siote only 6 or 7 days before the occurrence. During the wedlock the appellan