JUDGMENT

V. K. Jadhav, J. - This is an Appeal preferred by the sole accused against the Judgment and Order of conviction passed by the V Additional Sessions Judge, Solapur dated 30.10.1999 in Sessions Case No. 81 of 1999. The learned V Additional Sessions Judge, Solapur convicted the Appellant-accused for the offence punishable under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced him to suffer imprisonment for life and also to pay fine of Rs. 2,000/- I. D. to suffer R.I. for three months.

2. The prosecution case is as under:

The Appellant-accused was prosecuted for having committed the murder of his own daughter, namely, Heena by strangulation at his residence in Block No.6, Everest Apartment, Hotgi Road, Solapur. One Gausiya Begum was given in marriage to Appellant-accused in the year 1986. The said Gausiya Begum was daughter of PW 2-Iliyas Khan. The said Gausiya Begum died on 16.07.1997 leaving behind her two daughters, namely, Reshma and Heena. Since her death, the Appellant-accused was staying with his two minor daughters in Block No.6 on the second floor in Everest Apartment at Solapur. According to the prosecution, the accused was feeling lonely after the death of his wife