Heard the learned counsel for the appellant and the learned Additional Advocate General.

2. The appellant was the accused before the Court below and was accused of offence punishable under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. The accused having been convicted, the present appeal is filed.

3. It was the case of the prosecution that the complainant Mohan was the husband of the accused. He had sold land belonging to him for a sum of Rs.6,40,000/-. Out of that amount a sum of Rs.3,20,000/-was said to have been kept with his maternal uncle, Babu PW-3. It is alleged that the accused did not approve of the same and especially when the same was not returned by PW-3, the brother of Ramkabai her mother-in-law, and since she desired that the amount should be kept with her parents’ family. This it is stated was a rankling controversy, over which the accused had constantly picked up quarrels with Ramakabai, her mother-in-law. It is in this background, it is alleged, that on 28.06.2008 at about 7.30 p.m., the accused with an intention to cause the death of Ramakabai had throttled her and thereafter had tied a rope around her neck and hung her on a nail embedded in the wall in the