A.S. Gadkari, J.

The Appellant has questioned the correctness of his conviction and sentence for rigorous imprisonment for life under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code imposed upon him by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Khed, Rajgurunagar, District - Pune in Sessions Case No. 46 of 2015, by its Judgment and Order dated 06.05.2017.

2. Heard learned Counsel appearing for the Appellant and the learned APP for the State. Perused the entire record.

3. Shorn of the unnecessary details, the prosecution case in brief is that the deceased Smt. Kavita Sanjay Kamble was residing with the Appellant in Room No.8 of a chawl situated at Kadachiwadi, Village Awasari Khurd, Taluka Ambegaon, District - Pune with the Appellant alongwith her son Darshan. The relation between the Appellant and deceased was an extra marital affair and it appears from record that they were living in 'live in relationship'. It is the prosecution case that both the Appellant and deceased Kavita were earlier married with different spouses.

That the deceased did not permit the Appellant to meet his wife and children and even if the Appellant on any occasion met them, the deceased used to have bickering with h