MUKTA GUPTA, J.

1. Charged for murdering his wife Gyanwati, Satya Pal Singh has been convicted for offence punishable under Section 302 IPC and directed to undergo imprisonment for life vide judgment and order on sentence both dated September 22, 2001.

2. Sanjeev Kumar S/o Satya Pal Singh and Gyanwati, maker of the FIR stated that his father Satya Pal Singh was earlier working in DTC but because of addiction to smack, he was removed from service. His father used to demand money from his mother and beat her daily. On the night intervening March 15-16, 1999 he along with his two brothers was sleeping in their room and his parents in the other room. Around 2.30 AM in the night he woke up to urinate but could not open his room because the same was latched from outside. On peeping from the window he found his father in the courtyard and when he asked his father why his room was latched, without saying anything, his father opened the latch. After urinating, Sanjeev slept. When he got up at 5.45 AM in the morning, again his room was latched. He banged the door and after some time, a papaya seller who was in the gali opened the main gate and latch of his room. When he came out of