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 at PS Kampli, Ballari District, Karnataka – by the IIIrd Additional District and Sessions Judge⁵[Hereafter ‘Trial Court’], Ballari vide judgment dated 3rd December 2019 in Sessions Case No. 5031 of 2017 and by the High Court vide impugned judgment dated 30th May 2023 in Criminal Appeal No. 100170 of 2020 and Criminal Referred Case No. 100002 of 2020.

3. The facts of the appeals as have been culled out by the Courts below are tha