JUDGMENT :

ABHAY S. WAGHWASE, J.

1. This appeal takes exception to the judgment and order of conviction passed by learned Additional Sessions Judge, Bhusawal dated 10.08.2015 in Sessions Case No. 443 of 2014, by which appellant came to be convicted and sentenced to suffer imprisonment for life and pay fine for commission of offence under Sections 302 of the Indian Penal Code [IPC].

Brief background of the case before trial court.

2. Deceased Savita was married to accused and out of their wedlock they had two children. Precise accusation of the prosecution is that accused suspected fidelity of Savita and after getting drunk, he used to beat her. She had also approached Women’s Grievances Cell at Jalgaon but later on, disputes inter se were resolved and she was back in the company of accused husband. On 08.06.2014, both accused and deceased went to collect fire wood and returned home in the evening around 6.00 p.m. Savita approached her brother PW1 Subhash and told him that in the afternoon that day, husband had again abused and beaten her after suspecting her character. Informant, h