This appeal is filed by the appellant-accused under Section 374(2) of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, against the judgment of conviction dated 19-4-1996, passed by the learned Sessions Judge, Chitradurga, in S.C. No. 68 of 1994, whereby the Trial Court sentenced him to undergo rigorous imprisonment for 7 years for the offence punishable under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and further RI. for a period of 3 years for the offence punishable under Section 498-A of the IPC. The appellant herein not being satisfied with the judgment of conviction and sentence passed by the learned Sessions Judge, Chitradurga, challenged in this appeal on the following grounds.

2. Learned Sessions Judge has gravely erred in convicting the appellant-accused for the aforesaid offences. It is full of contradictions and omissions in the evidence of prosecution witnesses. The evidence of official witnesses had not been corroborated by any of the independent witnesses. Even then, the learned Sessions Judge, accepted the partial and one side version of the prosecution case and consequently come to a wrong conclusion and the prosecution has suppressed the true version of the incident and in