JUDGMENT :

ABHAY S. WAGHWASE, J.

1. Feeling aggrieved by judgment and order of conviction recorded by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Aurangabad in Sessions Case No.194 of 2010, thereby recording guilt and conviction of appellant for offence under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), convict has preferred instant appeal.

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2. Informant’s daughter Madhuri was married to appellant on 20-01-2010. On the strength of FIR lodged by PW1 Bhagwan Govinda Patil, father of deceased and informant, crime was registered for offence under Sections 302, 498-A, 323, 504 read with 34 of the IPC against husband and parents-in-laws. Informant alleged that after marriage of his deceased daughter with Mukesh (appellant), she was treated properly for barely 15 days. Thereafter, ill-treatment began. She was beaten and kept starved for failing to bring articles like fridge, gas-stove and cooler. Such ill-treatment mated out to her by accused persons was promptly informed by her to informant. Informant alleged that parents-in-law used to instigate husband, who in turn used to abuse and beat her. There were taunting and comments about not cooking properly.

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