(1) CRIMINAL No. 919 of 1981 is directed against the judgment dated 29/5/1981 passed by the High court of Punjab and Haryana in Criminal No. 604 of 1979. The said appeal was preferred by the respondents who were convicted by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Amritsar on 23/4/1979, in Sessions Trial No. 11 of 1979 on a charge under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code. The accused Kuldip Singh and his son Gurdip Kumar and his wife Darshan Kaur were convicted under Section 306 Indian Penal Code by the learned Additional Sessions Judge. Kuldip Singh and Gurdip Kumar were sentenced to four years rigorous imprisonment with a fine of Rs. 500.00 in default to suffer further imprisonment for three months, but Darshan Kaur was sentenced to three years rigorous imprisonment with a fine of Rs. 500.00 in default to suffer further imprisonment for three months.

(2) ACCORDING to the prosecution case, the deceased Jyoti Bala was given in marriage on 12/2/1978 at Arnritsar to accused Gurdip Kumar. but shortly after the said marriage, the deceased was ill-treated by the accused as the accused felt that proper dowry had not been given by the family of the deceased. It is also the