JUDGMENT :

Subhash Chand, J.

1. Both these Criminal Appeals have been preferred against the judgment of conviction dated 14.02.2018 and the order of sentence dated 16.02.2018 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge-VII, Dhanbad in Sessions Trial No. 95 of 2010, whereby the learned trial Court has convicted the appellants under Sections 304(B)/34 of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced them to undergo RI for ten years for the charge under Section 304(B)/34 of the Indian Penal Code.

2. Since both Criminal Appeals have been directed against the common impugned judgment, hence, both these appeals are being decided by this common judgment.

3. The brief facts of the prosecution case leading to these Criminal Appeals are that the fardbeyan of the informant Ram Kinkar Mandal was recorded by S.I., N. K. Prasad of Govindpur Police Station on 03.05.2009 wherein the allegations are made that the marriage of his sister was solemnized with Raja Ram Mandal about four years ago and after six months of marriage, the father-in-law Gurupad Mandal, mother-in-law Sandhya Mandal, Dewar Sukmar Mandal and husband Raja Ram Mandal began to subject her to cruelty for demand of dowry and for non-fulfilment