JUDGMENT

Mr. Sankar Bhattacharyya, J. - The subject-matter of challenge in this appeal is the judgment and order dated 30-11-83 passed by a learned Additional Sessions Judge, Howrah convicting the appellant under Section 302, Indian Penal Code and sentencing him to imprisonment for life.

2. Shorn of details, the prosecution case was as under:

Manwara Bibi, deceased was married to the appellant Abed Ali Jamadar round about the year 1976. For about a year and a half she lived in her matrimonial home in village Rajkhola within police station Panchla. Thereafter, following an estra-agement between them, she left her matrimonial home and started living with her mother in the same village.

3. Towards the latter part of August, 1979 there was a village salish at the instance of the appellant to settle the controversy between him and his wife and it was decided in the salish that Manwara's mother would send her back to the appellant's house on condition that she would not be asked to do any work of Jari (lace) but would simply do household work.

4. Even after the salish Manwara's mother was hesitant to send her daughter to the appellant's house as she apprehended danger to her life but ult