JUDGMENT :-

Swatanter Kumar, J.

1. It is the case of the prosecution that the accused Sahabuddin was married to one Sajna Begum, the deceased on 17th May, 2001, and they were staying together. She was three months’ pregnant. During her last visit to her parental home, she wailed and was not willing to go back to her husband’s house, stating that her husband and her brother-in-law would kill her if their demands of dowry were not met. However, the wish of her parents prevailed and she was sent back to her matrimonial home. After lapse of barely a couple of months i.e. on 9th September, 2001, approximately four months after her marriage, at about 10 p.m., one Sarifuddin, the elder brother-in-law of Sajna Begum, informed her uncle, Taibur Rahman, PW7 that she fell down in the kitchen due to dizziness. Ten minutes later, Sarifuddin came back and informed them that Sajana Begum fell down and froth was coming out of her mouth and thereafter she died. PW7 informed the mother of the deceased, Abejan Bibi, PW3, about the death of her daughter, Sajna Begum. When they reached the place of occurrence, they saw that their daughter was lying dead. Suspecting that it was not a natural death and t