JUDGMENT :

This criminal appeal under Section 374 (2) of Cr.P.C. is directed against the impugned judgment dated 30.01.2020 passed by the Additional Sessions Judge, Baikunthpur C.G. in Sessions Trial No.44/2019, by which the appellant herein has been convicted for the offence under Section 302 of Indian Penal Code (for short, 'IPC') and sentenced for life imprisonment with fine of Rs.1,000/-, in default of payment of fine additional rigorous imprisonment for one month.

2. Case of the prosecution, in brief, is that in the intervening night of 21- 22.03.2019 in between 11:00 pm to 8:00 am at village Murma Patelpara, appellant herein, after suspecting the character of his wife-Mangli Bai (hereinafter called as 'deceased'), committed her murder by assaulting her with wooden stick and after committing the murder of deceased, appellant severed the neck of deceased by blade and thereby committed the aforesaid offence. Further case of the prosecution is that on 22.03.2019 at about 11:00 pm, PW-6 Savitri heard the shoutings of her sister-in-law / deceased and when she went to her house, she saw the appellant assaulting the deceased by wooden stick on her head, as a result of which, she fell d