Sureshwar Thakur, J.

This appeal is directed against the judgment, rendered on 25th June, 2010 by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Sirmaur District at Nahan, H.P., in Sessions Trial No.6-N/7 of 2009, whereby the appellant has been convicted and sentenced to suffer rigorous imprisonment for life and to a pay fine of Rs.20,000/- and in default of payment of fine, to further undergo imprisonment for a period of one year for the commission of offence under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (hereinafter referred to as ‘IPC’).

2. The brief facts of the case are that deceased Mehrooba, the elder daughter of complainant Farmula, aged 22 years was married to accused Nasir about four years prior to her death on the intervening night of 11/12/11/2008. After marriage for about a year, the marital relations between the accused and the deceased were cordial but later, parents of accused Nasir turned both of them out of the house. Complainant Farmula gave Rs.30,000/- to Nasir and her daughter Mehrooba for the construction of new house, which after construction was inhabited by both of them, where they lived for about six months. Thereafter, Nasir, under the influence of his parent