N. Y. HANUMANTHAPPA, J.

( 1 ) THIS appeal is by the sole accused in S. C. No. 284 of 1994 on the file of the metropolitan Sessions Judge, Hyderabad, who by his order and Judgment dated 12-6-1996 convicted the accused -appellantfor offence under Section 302 ipc and sentenced him to undergo imprisonment for life.

( 2 ) A few facts which are necessary to dispose of this appeal are as follows: on tine intervening night of 7/8-9-92 P. W. 9 the Head Constable received a telephonic message from Gandhi Hospital, Secunderabad, stating that one smt. Anees Fatima was admitted in Female Burns Ward. He prepared a requisition letter to V Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, for recording the dying declaration of deceased Anees Fatima. P. W. 9 recorded the statement of the deceased in which she stated that her husband came to the house in a drunken condition, that she gave food to her husband, after taking food while thereafter, he poured kerosene on her person, lighted a match stick and set her ablaze. When she made hue and cry, the brother-in-law and the sister of the accused came and forcibly got opened the door and put out the flames and covered her with a blanket and shifted her to Gandhi Hos

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