This criminal revision case is directed against the judgment dated 16.09.2002 passed in Crl.A.No.279 of 2000 on the file of the VI Additional Sessions Court (Fast Track Court), East Godavari, Rajahmundry, wherein the conviction and sentence imposed by the learned Assistant Sessions Judge, Amalapuram, in S.C.No.99 of 1998, dated 16.09.2000, was modified.

The facts, in brief, are that the deceased Jonnada Lakshmi is a resident of Jai Bhimnagar, Kesanakurrapalem of I.Polavaram Mandal. A-1 and A-2, who are son and father respectively, are residents of Vitanalavari Kalavagattu, Amalapuram Taluq. A-2 is the maternal uncle of the deceased. PW-1 is the younger sister of the deceased. A-1 took the house of one Kovuri Ramanna in their street for rent and kept the deceased and PW-1 therein. Due to the promise made by A-1 that he would marry the deceased, he was allowed to have sexual intercourse with her. When the deceased became pregnant, A-1 got her aborted and later, refused to marry her on the abetment of A-2. The deceased vexed with her life on such refusal by A-1, consumed poison and died on 11.02.1994 at 6-00 p.m. On the basis of the report given by PW-1 about the unnatural