( 1 ) ONE Sivagangulamma @ Sivamma ayoung woman - aged 24 years (hereinafter referred to as the deceased) committed suicide on 3-6-1999 by jumping into an irrigation well near kattakinda village fields of Thavanampalll mandal. afterthrowing her three children viz. , bharath Kumar, Yamini and Thulasi Prasad into the said well, within seven years of her marriage. Alleging that the said death of deceased is a dowry death, her husband and parents-in-law, who are appellants herein were tried as A-1 to A-3 in S. C. No. 173 of 2000 on the file of the Court of the VII Additional District and Sessions Judge, Chittoor, for the offence punishable under Section 304-B of the Indian penal Code, 1860. On trial, learned Additional sessions Judge found A-1 to A-3 guilty of the offence punishable under Section 304-B of ipc and accordingly convicted and sentenced them to undergo rigorous imprisonment for seven years each. As against the said judgment, dated 9-11 -2001, appellants have preferred this criminal appeal.

( 2 ) CASE of prosecution, in brief is that A-1 is the son of A-2 and A-3. The marriage between A-1 and deceased was performed on 12-11-1992 at Mogileswaraswami temple, mogili, Bangaripa

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