JUDGMENT :

MANISH CHOUDHURY, J.

1. This criminal appeal from Jail under Section 383 , Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 [‘the Code’ and/or ‘CrPC’ for short] is directed against a Judgment and Order dated 18.07.2019 passed by the Court of learned Sessions Judge, Dima Hasao, Haflong in Sessions Case no. 01/2017 [corresponding to G.R. Case No. 64/2016]. By the Judgment and Order dated 18.07.2019, the learned Sessions Judge, Dima Hasao, Haflong has convicted the appellant under Section 302 , INDIAN PENAL CODE [IPC] after finding him guilty of uxoricide and he has been sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Rs.10,000/- in default of payment of fine, to undergo simple imprisonment for three months.

2. The investigation was set into motion on lodgment of a First Information Report [FIR] before the Officer In-Charge, Maibang Police Station on 31.10.2016 by the informant, Asha Kurmi [P.W.1]. In the FIR, the informant-P.W.1 had inter alia alleged that at about 10-00 p.m. on 30.10.2016, the accused-appellant had inhumanly tortured her daughter, Baby Telepathar [the deceased] who was the wife of the appellant, and caused injuries on her head and other parts of h