JUDGMENT :

G.K. ILANTHIRAIYAN, J.

This appeal is directed as against the Judgment passed in S.C.No.332 of 2012 dated 20.08.2025, on the file of the learned VI Additional District Judge, Madurai, thereby convicting the appellant for the offences punishable under Section 302 of I.P.C (2 counts) and also under Section 201 r/w 302 of I.P.C.

2.The case of the prosecution is that the first accused is the husband of P.W.1. After their marriage, they were blessed with two children. Thereafter, the first accused developed an illicit intimacy with the third accused. While being so, on 08.04.2012 at about 02.30 p.m., when P.W.1 was washing clothes, the first accused came there in an auto and took the two children along with him. Thereafter, they did not return home and as such, P.W.1 along with her mother searched for the children. Ultimately, she found that near the garden of one Ayothi, accused Nos.1 to 3 had taken the children towards a well and dropped them in the well belonging to Ayothi. After hearing the alarm raised by P.W.1, PW.2 and P.W.3, who were working in the nearby field, also witnessed the occurrence. Both the children were taken out from the well and were found dead. Thereafte