JUDGMENT :

C. PRAVEEN KUMAR, J.

1. The present Criminal Appeal came to be filed under Section 374(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, challenging the judgment, dated 21.10.2015 in Sessions Case No. 146 of 2014 on the file of the learned XIII Additional District and Sessions Judge, Narasaraopet, Guntur District, wherein accused Nos. 1 and 2 were tried and convicted for the offences punishable under Sections 302 and 201 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 [for short ‘IPC’]. Both the accused were sentenced to suffer imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Rs. 500/- each in default to pay fine amount, simple imprisonment for one month each for the offence punishable under Section 302 I.P.C. and further sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of three years and to pay a fine of Rs. 100/- each, in default to pay fine amount, simple imprisonment for a period of one month each for the offence punishable under Section 201 I.P.C. The substantive sentences were directed to be run concurrently.

2. The gravamen of the charge against the accused is that, on 23.06.2012 A1, on the advice of A2, who is the mother of A1, administered poison drops of FOSMITE 50% Insecticide along w