JUDGMENT :

Smt. Sadhana S. Jadhav, J.

1. The appellant herein is convicted for the offence punishable under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced to suffer imprisonment for life and fine of Rs.1,000/- in default to suffer simple imprisonment for 3 months by the learned Sessions Judge, Raigad, Alibaug in Sessions Case No.102 of 2011 vide judgment and order dated 5th April 2012. Hence, this appeal.

2. Such of the facts that are necessary for the decision of this appeal are as follows :-

(i) On 24th April 2011 at about 4.00 am, Pravin Khimji Chavan visited Kalamboli Police Station with blood stained clothes on his person and informed PSI - Dattatray Shankar Khade (P.W.2) that he suspected the character of his wife. There was a quarrel on that count at about 12.30 midnight, after which he killed her by assaulting her with a knife. First information was recorded in the station diary. The said information was further conveyed to the patrolling officers of the said area. The informant led the police to his house. Upon entering the house they saw the dead body of his wife Renu in a pool of blood. There were injuries all over her body.

(ii) On the basis of the said report, Crime No.