JUDGMENT :

BELA M. TRIVEDI, J.

1. The present appeal filed by the appellants-accused emanates from the Judgment dated 29th August, 2013 passed by the High Court of Uttarakhand at Nainital in Criminal Jail Appeal No. 64/2010, whereby the High Court has dismissed the said appeal and upheld the conviction and sentence awarded by the District and Sessions Judge, Tehri Garhwal in Sessions Trial No. 22/2009. Both the appellants-accused were convicted by the Sessions Court for the offence under Section 302 read with Section 34 and Section 201 of the IPC and were sentenced to undergo life imprisonment and pay fine of Rs. 20,000/- for the offence under Section 302 read with Section 34 and to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of six years and pay fine of Rs. 10,000/- for the offence under Section 201 of the IPC.

2. The case in nutshell of the prosecution before the Trial Court was that Smt. Shashi Devi had married the accused-Satye Singh four years prior to the date of incident which had taken place any time between the evening of 27.06.2009 to the morning of 28.06.2009. The accused-Indra Devi happened to be the mother of the accused-Satye Singh. On 28.06.2009 at about 8.40 a.m. Rai Si