By way of the present appeal under Section 378 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, the appellant State has challenged the impugned judgment and order of acquittal dated 29-8-1992 passed by learned Additional Sessions Judge, Ahmedabad (Rural) at Mirzapur in Sessions Case No. 136 of 1991 whereby the original accused were acquitted of the charges under Sections 498A, 306 read with Section 114 of Indian Penal Code. The trial Court acquitted accused No. 2 of the charge under Section 304-B of the Indian Penal Code also.

2. The brief facts of the prosecution case are that deceased Bhanuben, was daughter- in-law of accused No. 1 and wife of accused No. 2. Accused No. 3 is the wife of accused No. 5 who is brother of accused No. 2. Accused No. 4 is sister-in-law of deceased Bhanuben, it is stated in the complaint that after marriage, deceased Bhanuben could not bear a child for a long time. Therefore, the accused persons were harassing her mentally and physically. They were taunting her for the said reason. They were not giving her enough food, clothes. They did not allow deceased Bhanuben to go to her maternal house. This led her to take extreme step of committing suicide on 5-