ORDER :

1. The appellants have been convicted under Sections 498A, 304B and 306 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code. The Trial Court had convicted sister-in-law (appellant no.1), husband (appellant no.2) and mother-in-law of the deceased and sentenced them to suffer life imprisonment, 3 years R.I and 10 years R.I for offences under Sections 304B, 498A and 306 of IPC respectively, along with fine and other default stipulations. Both the conviction and the sentence of the present appellants have been upheld in appeal and the High Court has dismissed the appeal. During the pendency of the appeal, one of the appellants i.e. appellant no. 3 (Sova Rani Karmakar, the mother-in-law of the deceased) had passed away and the case against her stands abated.

2. The brief case of the prosecution is as follows:

The deceased, Sonali Karmakar, and the appellant No. 2, Samir Karmarkar were married in March 2003, and out of the wedlock, there is a son who was born on 4.9.2004 (Now 20 years of age). On 2.5.2006 the deceased committed suicide by hanging herself in her matrimonial house. The deceased was alone at the time of the incident and the appellant No. 2, the husband was not even in the ho