JUDGMENT :

N.ANIL KUMAR, J.

1. The appellant, who is the first accused in S.C. No.881/2006 on the file of the Additional Sessions Court-VI, Kollam, challenges the conviction and sentence passed against him by judgment dated 19.12.2014 for the offences punishable under Sections 302, 498A and 304B read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short 'the IPC'). There were altogether three accused in the above case. The learned Sessions Judge, on trial, found that the second and third accused were not guilty and the first accused was guilty of the charges levelled against him. The court below convicted and sentenced the first accused to undergo imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Rs.25,000/-, in default of payment of fine, to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year for the offence punishable under Section 302 of IPC. The fine amount of Rs.25,000/-was ordered to be equally given to PW1 and his sister Omana under Section 357(1)(b) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short 'the Cr.P.C.'). Further, the court below sentenced the first accused to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year and to pay a fine of Rs.5000/-, in default of payment of fine, to undergo ri