As per Hon'ble Shri Sunil Kumar Sinha, J. :-

1. The appellant is aggrieved by the judgment dated 31st of March, 1998 passed in Sessions Trial No. 1/97 by the Second Additional Sessions Judge, Durg, whereby she has been convicted u/S 302 IPC and sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life.

2. The facts, briefly stated, are as under :

2.1 Appellant- Nirmala Bai is mother-in-law of deceased-Anita Bai. Anita Bai (deceased) was married to the son of appellant five years back. She had a female child. On some dispute, she was residing in her parent's place, however, since last one year, she had came to reside with her husband in village Mahamaya. The appellant (mother-in-law), her son Rajendra Kumar (husband) and Anita Bai (deceased), three persons were residing together in a house in village Mahamaya.

2.2 On 28.8.1996 at about 1.30-2.00 p.m., the appellant and. the deceased (only two persons) were present in their house. Husband of the deceased had gone for his routine work. The case of the prosecution is that the appellant poured kerosene on the deceased and put her on fire. The persons of the locality took the deceased to the hospital. The deceased had sustained 100% burn injuries.