S.NAGAMUTHU, J.

The appellants are the accused 1 and 2 in S.C.No.150 of 2010, on the file of the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Fast Track Court No.I, Thoothukudi. The accused 1 and 2 stood charged for the offence under Section 120-B read with 302 I.P.C. and the first accused stood charged for yet another offence under Section 302 I.P.C. By Judgment, dated 02.11.2010, the Trial Court convicted them. For the offence under Section 120-B read with 302 I.P.C., the Trial Court sentenced both the accused to undergo imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Rs.1,000/-in default to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year and for the offence under Section 302 I.P.C., the Trial Court sentenced the first accused to undergo imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Rs.1,000/-in default to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year. Challenging the said conviction and sentence, the appellants are before this Court, with these Criminal Appeals.

2. The case of the prosecution, in brief, is as follows:

The deceased in this case was one Mr.Rajarajan. The second accused is his wife. It is alleged that the second accused had developed illicit intimacy with the first accused. The dec