Shree Chandrashekhar, J.

1. The sole appellant has preferred this criminal appeal against the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 13.02.2002/14.02.2002 in Sessions Case No. 119 of 1987/369 of 2001 passed by the Sessions Judge, Jamtara. The appellant has been convicted for an offence under Section 302 I.P.C. and he has been found guilty for the alternate charge under Section 304(B) I.P.C. also. The appellant has been sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for life. The charge for the offence under Section 4 of Dowry Prohibition Act has failed and the appellant has been acquitted of the said charge.

2. The prosecution case as disclosed in the fardbeyan of Lakshmi Narain Tiwary, who is the father of the deceased, is that his daughter Veena Devi was married to the accused Anil Tiwary in the year 1983. His daughter was blessed with a daughter about four months prior to the incident. On 18.02.1987, he had gone to the house of his daughter at village Kamaldih where in the night his daughter informed him that she was harassed for demand of dowry. He persuaded his daughter to stay there and came back on 19.02.1987. He used to plead with his soninlaw with folded