A.J. Shastri, J.

1. This appeal has been preferred by the State under Section 378 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, against the judgment and order of acquittal dated 7.2.2006 recorded by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Fast Track Court No. 3, Surendranagar, in Sessions Case No. 54 of 2004.

2. Brief facts of the case of the prosecution are that an FIR being C.R. No. I-171 of 2003 came to be lodged before Limbdi Police Station on the basis of a written complaint filed by the complainant on 18.9.2003 stating that his daughter Lilavati had an affair with accused No. 1-Vijay and were to marry which was opposed by accused Nos. 2 to 4. It was alleged in the complaint that on 25.8.2002 at about 10.30 a.m., Lilavati was called over telephone to the workshop where all the respondents-accused were present. When Lilavati put the proposal of marriage before the accused, they outrightly rejected the same by stating that this cannot be done during their life time and thereafter, she was taken to a separate room where accused Nos. 2 to 4 asked accused No. 1 to do something about the deceased as she will always come in their way. Thereafter, accused No. 1 gave a bottle of acid an