JUDGMENT :

SANJAY KAROL, J.

1. This is the third in an unfortunate line of cases that have travelled up to this Court in a recent past and have become ripe for adjudication where we find all sense of responsibility and propriety to have been given a go by, by the Appellant-convict. In this case, the seed of violence was the suspected infidelity of his wife Pakkeeramma¹[Hereinafter referred to as D1]. He suspected that his three-children namely Pavithra²[Hereinafter referred to as D3], Nagraj @Rajappa³[Hereinafter referred to as D4] and Basamma⁴[Hereinafter referred to as D5] born to D-1 were perhaps not his own.

2. Concurrently, the Appellant-convict has been held guilty of charges framed against him in FIR Cr. No. 23 of 2017 dated 26th February 2017 registered a