ORDER: The revision petitioner who is the mother of the deceased has filed the above criminal revision case against the acquittal judgment dated 11.11.1993 rendered in S.C.No.43 of 1997 by the Court of Principal Sessions Judge, Vellore on averments such as that the accused contracted into a bigamous marriage with the petitioner’s daughter, the deceased on 29.5.1994; that demanding money and jewellery from her as dowry the first respondent started ill-treating the deceased for quite sometime; that on 22.6.1994 at about 2.00 p.m. the accused in pursuance of the aforesaid demand picked up a wordy quarrel with the deceased and thereafter with the intention of causing her death poured kerosene upon her and set fire on her resulting in the deceased sustaining extensive burn injuries and dying of shock and septicemia; that charge-sheet was laid against the accused for an offence punishable under Sec.302 of the I.P.C.

2. In the affidavit filed in support of the above criminal revision case, the petitioner would submit that lot of evidence was putforth by the prosecution before the trial Court in proof of the guilt of the accused and in fact the prosecution examined 19 witnesses for oral evi

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