JUDGMENT :

C. Praveen Kumar, J.

Heard through Video Conference (Blue Jeans App).

2. The appellants/A-1 and A-2, who are the daughter and mother/wife and mother-in-law of one Gurram Venkateswara Rao (hereinafter, referred to as “the deceased”), preferred this Criminal Appeal under Section 374(2) Cr.P.C. assailing their conviction and sentence imposed by the learned XV Additional District and Sessions Judge, Nuzvid vide judgment, dated 9.6.2015, in Sessions Case No.244 of 2013 for the offence punishable under Section 302 read with 34 I.P.C. wherein they were sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life and to pay a sum of Rs.500/-each, in default, to suffer simple imprisonment for a period of six (6) months.

3. The charge levelled against them is that on 29.1.2012, at about 11:00 P.M., A-1 and A-2 caused the death of the deceased by pouring boiled oil on his body while he was sleeping and thereafter, hitting him on his head with a wooden sliver.

4. The facts in issue are as under:

P.Ws.1 to 4 are the persons known to the deceased and they were working in NSL factory. P.W.5 is the brother of the deceased while P.W.6 is the mother of the deceased. P.Ws.7 and 8 are the children of the deceased.