C.R. Sarma, J.

1. This appeal with leave under Section 378(3) of the Criminal Procedure Code (for short, hereinafter referred to as Cr.P.C.), 1973 is directed against the judgment and order dated 12.2.2002 passed by the learned Sessions Judge, North Tripura, Kailashahar in Sessions Trial No. 24(NT/K) of 1999 acquitting the accused Sri Pramil Datta from the offences charged under Sections 498A and 306 of the Indian Penal Code (for short, hereinafter referred to as IPC).

2. I have heard Sri A. Ghosh, learned Addl. PP for the Appellant-State as well as Mr. P.R. Barman, learned Counsel for the Respondent-opposite party.

3. The prosecution case, in brief, may be stated as follows :

Smt. Alo Rani Datta, daughter of the informant Smt. Ashalata Bhowmik was given in marriage to Sri Pramil Datta about 27 to 28 years ago. On 4.9.1998 at about 4.30 p.m. Alo Rani Datta took poison for which she was taken to the hospital wherein she breathed her last. Initially, on receipt of an information from the Medical Officer of the hospital Police registered a case under Section 174 Code of Criminal Procedure being an un-natural death (suicide). On 5.9.98 Smt. Ashalata Bhowmik mother of the deceased l