JUDGMENT :

C.Praveen Kumar, J.

1. Heard Smt. A.Gayatri Reddy, learned counsel for the appellant/accused and Sri K.Srinivasa Reddy, learned Public Prosecutor for the State of Andhra Pradesh.

2. Sole accused in Sessions Case No.463 of 2013 on the file of the XI Additional Sessions Judge, Guntur at Tenali was tried for the offences punishable under Sections 302 and 201 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC). Vide judgment dated 12.12.2014, the learned Sessions Judge convicted the accused for the said offences and sentenced him to suffer imprisonment for life and to pay fine of Rs.2,000/- in default to suffer rigorous imprisonment for a period three months for the offence punishable under Section 302 IPC and to suffer rigorous imprisonment for five years and to pay fine of Rs.1,000/- in default to suffer rigorous imprisonment for a period of three months for the offence punishable under Section 201 IPC,. The substantive sentences were ordered to run concurrently. Assailing the same, the present Criminal Appeal is filed.

3. Case of the prosecution, in brief, is as follows :

P.W.1 is the husband, P.Ws.2 and 3 are daughters, of the deceased Movva Mangamma. P.W.4 is mother of P.W.1. The accused a