JUDGMENT :

G. JAYACHANDRAN, J.

Prayer: Criminal Appeal is filed under Section 374(2) of Cr.P.C. against the sentence and order passed in S.C. No. 154 of 2013 dated 19.09.2015 by the Learned Magalir Neethimandram (Fast Track Mahila Court), Tiruppur and seeks to set aside the same.

1. The appellant herein is the husband of deceased Mageshwari. They got married in the year 2006 and had two female children by name Harini (3 years old) and Hasini (6 months old). On 30.10.2010, Mageshwari doused herself with kerosene and set fire to herself. Her 6 months old daughter Hasini, who was near her also caught in fire, both died.

2. Next day, on 31.10.2010, at about 2.00 p.m. Chandrapal, the father of the deceased informed the police about the incident. He alleged that, a month before the occurrence when he and his wife came to see their daughter, she complaint about her husband Srinivasan that, he is having illicit relationship with several women and not taking care of her and their children. He stay away from the home for several days. A month prior to the incident, they heard Srinivasan has set up a house for one Radha, daughter of Neelaperumal and living with her. When they reported about the b