JUDGMENT

1. The instant application for suspension of sentence under Section 389 CrPC has been preferred on behalf of the appellant-applicant Ramesh Kumar S/o Savaji, who has been convicted under Section 302 of the IPC and sentenced to life imprisonment with fine of Rs.10,000/- vide the judgment dated 16.12.2020 passed by the learned additional Sessions Judge, Bhinmal, District Jalore in Sessions Case No.22/2016.

2. Learned counsel for the applicant-appellant submits that there is no eye-witness of the incident and the entire case of the prosecution hinges upon circumstantial evidence, however, the circumstances put-forth against the accused-applicant are neither definite in tendency nor conclusive in nature. He further submits that since the parents of the deceased-wife were not agreeable for her marriage with the petitioner, therefore, they performed love marriage in the year 2006 and lived a happy married life till the year 2015; sans any complaint of maltreatment. He further submits that deceased-wife sustained an injury on her leg and thereafter, she had been in indisposed condition and thus her demise was a natural death. It is further submitted that applicant-accused is langui