JUDGMENT

A.S. Anand, J. - The appellant was tried for an offence under Section 302 IPC for the alleged murder of Madan Lal, her husband. The learned Judge of the Special Court, Ferozepur convicted her for the said offence and sentenced her to suffer imprisonment for life vide judgment dated 29.8.1985. Through this statutory appeal under Section 14 of the Terrorist Affected Areas (Special Courts) Act, 1984, the appellant has called in question her conviction and sentence.

2. The prosecution story in short is that the appellant and deceased were married about 10 years prior to the date of occurrence. They were serving as Government teachers and posted at different places. The couple had a son who was suffering from blood cancer and unfortunately died on 23.7.1984. Though the summer vacations had finished on 22.7.1984, the couple had applied for extension of leave on account of the death of their son and the leave in the case of each one of them was extended upto 31.8.1984 the day of the occurrence. It is alleged that on the night intervening 30-31 August, 1984 at about 2.00 a.m. deceased Madan Lal knocked at the door of his mother, Lachhmi Devi, PW-l who was living separately alongwith