S.S. BYAS, J.—By his judgment dated January 19, 1987 the learned Sessions Judge, Pratapgarh convicted the accused Umaidsingh under section 302, I.P.C. and sentenced him to death. He further convicted the accused under section 301, I.P.C, but awarded no separate sentence. The Sessions Judge has submitted the proceedings under section 366, Cr.P.C. for the confirmation of the death sentence. As usual, the accused challenges his conviction and has filed two appeals one through Jail and the other represented, for that purpose. We have, thus, two matters before us., viz.(l) reference made by the Sessions Judge and (2) the appeals of the accused.

2. The blame-load on the accused is that he wiped off his wife, who was in her middle twenties son (aged about four years) and daughter (hardly four months of age). The motive alleged is that the wife had brought insufficient dowry and the accused had developed illicit intimacy with some other woman.

3. Put briefly, the prosecution case runs as under:-

4. Accused Umaidsingh, aged about 30 years, was married to Smt. Maanu Bai somewhere seven/eight years before 1984. The marriage was solemnized in village Damodhar, where her parents resided. After mar

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