Thomas, J.

One Sukumarakurup was believed to be the victim of a murder and the body was found in flames in a motor car inferno. But later it was revealed that the body was no of Sukumarakurup, but of one Chacko and that Sukumarakurup played the role ai kingpin in a diabolic plot to make a facade that he was killed. It was done with the rapacious motive of inveigling a whopping sum covered by an insurance police subscribed to by himself at Abudabi. This is the nub of the prosecution story.

2. Though the police nabbed all others believed to have been involved in the conspiracy, the one who eluded from the dragnet of the police is Sukumarakurup himself. So the case was charge sheeted without him as the accused. One of the culprits was transposed as an approver and was examined as an eye witness. Sukumarakurup brother-in-law (wife's sister's husband) and his driver were arrayed as the first ai second accused respectively. Sukumarakurup's wife and her sister were arraigned third and fourth accused respectively. Learned Sessions Judge convicted the first and second accused of murder/criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence, but the remaining accused were acquitted. These