JUDGMENT :

V. K. Jadhav, J.

1. This appeal is directed against the judgment and order of conviction passed by the Additional Sessions Judge, Aurangabad dated 11.9.2015 in Sessions Case No.118 of 2013 thereby convicting the appellant/accused Suresh s/o Babu Giri for the offence punishable u/s 302 of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced to suffer imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Rs.2,000/-.

2. Brief facts of the prosecution case, are as follows :-

a] It is the prosecution case that the appellant/accused Suresh Giri had committed murder of his wife Bebibai by pouring kerosene on her person and setting her on fire with the help of matchstick. Deceased Bebibai had taken initiative to fix marriage of their daughter with the relatives of her side. However, the appellant/accused was not agree for the said relation. On 18.9.2012 at about 10.30 to 11.00 p.m. the appellant/accused came to the house by consuming liquor. Their children slept on terrace. Deceased Bebibai was alone in the house. The appellant/accused had raised the quarrel with deceased Bebibai by saying as to how she had taken initiative to fix the marriage of their daughter. Deceased Bebibai had replied to him that the boy