JUDGMENT :

G. Narendar, J.

Heard the learned counsel for the appellant and the learned High Court Government Pleader for the respondent – State.

2. Facts leading to this appeal :

The gist of the prosecution version as narrated in column No.17 is that Smt. Chandrakala W/o Halaswamy (CW-2) aged about 38 years, had an illicit relationship with the accused since the last 12 years and in the last 5 to 6 months, the accused found the said Chandrakala cheating on him by moving around with other men and enraged by the said act of cheating and to exact revenge, the accused took the said Chandrakala to the land bearing Sy.No.90 situated in Baluru Village of Shikaripura Taluk on 02.03.2012 and between 05.30 p.m. and 06.30 p.m., he committed the murder by striking on the head of the said Chandrakala with a stone found in the land and upon the deceased losing consciousness and falling to the ground, the accused proceeded to press her neck and thereby asphyxiated her and committed the murder and after committing the murder and with the intention of destroying the evidence, he removed the sim car