JUDGMENT

S S Shinde, J. - This Criminal Appeal takes an exception to the judgment and order dated 29/04/1999 IInd Additional Sessions Judge, Satara in Sessions Case No. 82 of 1997 acquitting both the accused from the offences punishable under Sections 302, 201 read with 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

2. The prosecution story in nutshell is as under:

On 19/12/1996 one Bajarang Kundalik Patil noticed a dead body of a woman lying in his field. There were injuries on the said dead body. On the basis of the information given by Bajarang Kundalik Patil, the police of Sangli (R) Police Station registered a crime vide Cri. No.115/96 for the offences punishable under Sections 302, 201 r/w 34 of the Indian Penal Code. Thereafter police went to the field of Bajarang Patil, prepared inquest panchanama, spot panchanama and then sent the dead body to Government Hospital for post-mortem. As the dead body was of woman, the photographs of the said dead body were taken, and published in various news paper and circulated in the District of Sangli, Kolhapur, Satara, etc. PSI Vijay Uttam Bagal of Sangli (R) Police Station started inquiry and investigation. When PSI Bagal found that the dead body started t