JUDGMENT :

Prayer: Criminal Appeal filed under Section 374 of Criminal Procedure Code, against the Judgment dated 10.07.2015 in S.C.No.164 of 1990 on the file of the V Additional Session Judge, Chennai.

This appeal is filed by the first accused in the case namely, Ravi sha, who is the husband of the victim in this case.

2. The gist of the allegations of the case of the prosecution is that one Shanthi Bai and the appellant herein got married on 04.09.1987. On 13.09.1989, the said Shanthi Bai died under abnormal circumstances and after the Post Mortem and Viscera Analysis, it was found that she died due to cyanide poisoning. Therefore, the case was registered in a Crime No.2030 of 1989 and P.W.17 took up the case for investigation and filed a final report holding that the appellant herein the husband and two other accused namely the parents of the accused and the in-laws of the victim one Narayansha and Gangabai as guilty for the offences under Sections 498-A and 302 r/w Section 34 of IPC.

3. After committal, the case was taken on file as S.C.No.164 of 1990, since the accused denied the charges and stood trial, the prosecution examined P.W.1 to P.W.17 and marked Exs.P-1 to P-17. Upon bei