JUDGMENT

Special leave granted.

2. The sole accused in the case is the, appellant. He is convicted under S. 302 Indian Penal Code and sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life for the offence of committing the murder of one Nirmala. The occurrence is said to have taken place in a multi-storeyed building near the stair-case where she was working as a maid servant in one of the flats. The deceased was the wife of PW 5 and they were residing in Chembur, Bombay and the accused was residing in the adjacent hut along with his mother and younger brother. PW-5 suspected that the accused had developed illicit intimacy with the deceased and also slapped him and asked him not to visit his house. About a month thereafter, PW-5 went to his native place at Satara, leaving his wife at Bombay. The accused tried to renew the illicit intimacy with wife of PW-5 but she did not respond. Two days prior to the incident, the accused threatened the deceased with dire consequences in case she did not leave her husband and children and join him. The deceased told her sister (PW-9) about the threat given by the accused. On the day of occurrence, 3-5-77, the deceased went to the house of PW-3 and worked there