JUDGMENT :

Subhash Chand, J.

1. This Criminal Appeal has been preferred against the judgment of conviction dated 26.11.2018 and the order of sentence dated 29.11.2018 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge-XVI, Dhanbad in Sessions Trial No.251 of 2008, whereby the learned trial Court has convicted the appellant under Sections 302/201 of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced him to RI for life along with fine of Rs.20,000/-for the offence under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code. The appellant was further directed to undergo RI for 7 years along with fine of Rs.5000/- for the offence under Section 201 of the Indian Penal Code. In case of default in payment of fine, the appellant was directed to undergo RI for one year.

2. The brief facts of the prosecution case leading to this Criminal Appeal are that the informant Ali Bux Mian had given the written information with the police station concerned with these allegations that his daughter was married with Jumed Khan 20-21 years ago. After marriage, both remained happily for some time, thereafter, her husband began to torture her, for this reason, his daughter had instituted a case in the Court of Giridih, due to which, his son-in-