Yashoda Devi W/o Shri Janardan Rajak vs State of Bihar

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2022 Supreme(Pat) 966

A. M. BADAR, RAJESH KUMAR VERMA
Yashoda Devi W/o Shri Janardan Rajak – Appellant
Versus
State of Bihar – Respondent

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant : Sanjiv Sharan.
For the Respondent: Binod Bihari Singh.

JUDGMENT :

A.M. BADAR, J.

1. By this appeal, appellants/convicted accused, are challenging the Judgment and order dated 11.06.2014 and 20.06.2014 passed by the learned 1st Additional Sessions Judge, Bhagalpur, in Sessions Trial No. 491 of 2012 between the parties, thereby convicting them of the offence punishable under Section 302 r/w Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code and sentencing them to suffer rigorous imprisonment for life. They however were acquitted of the offence punishable under Section 304B r/w 34 of the Indian Penal Code. For the sake of convenience, the appellants shall be referred to in their original capacity as “an accused.”

2. Facts leading to the prosecution of the accused projected from the police report can be summarized thus:

(A) Accused No. 1 Yashoda Devi is mother-in-law, accused no. 2 Pinku Rajak is husband, accused no. 3 Bebi Devi is sister-in-law whereas accused no. 4 Janardan Rajak is father-in-law of the deceased Bebi Devi wife of Pinku Rajak. She married Pinku Rajak 6 to 7 years prior to her death. After her marriage, she started cohabiting with her husband, i.e. accused Pinku Rajak at village Mohanpur falling under the jurisdiction of Police Station Nathn