JUDGMENT

Appellant, Salamat Ali, was the father-in-law and appellant, Anwari Begum, was the mother-in-law of Jahanara, deceased. The husband of the deceased, Md. Salim Ahmed, was a co-accused with the former two. The aforesaid three were tried for offences under Sections 302/34 and 304-B/34, I.P.C for causing the death of Jahanara, daughter of P.W. 7 on account of her parents being unwilling and incapable of meeting the dowry demand for providing them a television and a scooter. The prosecution case is that the demand of the husband was shared by the parents and that all the three were conjointly responsible for being cruel to the deceased and on the fateful night she died in the room of her husband being strangulated, wherefrom her corpse was recovered in that situation. The incident, in a different light, was reported to the parents of the deceased and it is her father who reported the matter to the police which led to the investigation and ultimately to trial.

2. The Court of Session convicted the three accused for offence under Sections 304-B/34, I.P.C. and sentenced them to undergo rigrous imprisonment for seven years each, but acquitted them of offence under Sections 302/34. I