JUDGMENT :

C. Praveen Kumar, J.

1. Accused No.1 in Sessions Case No. 294 of 2012 on the file of XIII Additional District and Sessions Judge, Narasaraopet, is the appellant herein. He along with Accused No. 2 [acquitted] were tried for an offence punishable under Section 302 read with 34 of Indian Penal Code [‘I.P.C.’], for causing the death of one Kshatri Nagamani [‘Deceased’] on 05.10.2011 at 4.00 p.m. at Subabul Garden. By its Judgment, dated 17.11.2014, the learned Sessions Judge convicted Accused No.1 alone for the offence punishable under Section 302 I.P.C. and sentenced him to suffer rigorous imprisonment for life and to pay fine of Rs.1,000/- in default to undergo simple imprisonment for one month.

2. The facts, in the issue, are as under:

(i) PW1 is the father of PW2 and husband of the deceased; PW3 is the mother of PW1. The marriage of PW1 with the deceased took place about nine years prior to the incident. He was blessed with two children.

(ii) On 05.10.2011 the deceased and PW2 went to attend calls of nature while PW1 left the house at 7.00 a.m., to his work at Gollapadu Village. It is said that, when PW2 and her mother [deceased] went to the fields in the evening, at that ti