JUDGMENT :

Sanjay K. Agrawal, J.

1. This criminal appeal under Section 374(2) of the CrPC is directed against the impugned judgment dated 9.4.2014 passed by the Additional Sessions Judge, Mungeli, in Sessions Trial No.13/2013, by which the appellant herein has been convicted for offences under Sections 302 and 201 of the IPC and sentenced him to undergo imprisonment for life and fine of Rs.1000/-, in default of payment of fine to further undergo imprisonment for one month and rigorous imprisonment for seven years and fine of Rs.1000/-, in default of payment of fine to further undergo imprisonment for one month. Both sentences were directed to run concurrently.

2. Case of the prosecution, in brief, is that the appellant/accused on 13.1.2013 at 4 p.m. committed murder of his wife Baijantibala by strangulation and caused disappearance of the evidence by falsely informing the police that she died by electrification. It is further case of the prosecution that the appellant along with his two daughters Rameshwari and Chandani had visited village Lalpur on 18.12.2013 to Ghasidas mela organized therein and from where the parents of the deceased namely Rohit Kumar (PW-1) and his wife Smt. Shai