This criminal appeal is directed against the judgment dated 18-3-2006, passed in S.C. No. 604 of 2005, by the II Additional Sessions Judge, Nalgonda, where under and whereby the sole accused was convicted for the offence punishable under Section 3021PC and was sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Rs. 1001- in default to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of on month.

2. The brief facts that are necessary for disposal of the present criminal appeal may be stated as follows.

Devaiah (hereinafter referred to as 'the deceased') is no other than the son of the accused. P.W. 1 is the wife of the deceased. The deceased and P.W.1 along with their children used to reside at Hyderabad by doing coolie work. Two or three months prior to the death of the deceased, P.W.1 and the deceased came down to Vasanthapuram and living with the accused in his house. The accused was having half acre of agricultural land in their village. After the deceased returned to the village he asked his father to give the half acre of land to him for cultivating the same on lease, for which the accused refused to give the same as he proposed to give the lan