JUDGMENT :

C.R. DASH, J.

1. In S.T. Case No. 19 of 2017, learned Additional Sessions Judge, Rairangpur in the district of Mayurbhanj found the present Appellants Satya Prakash Dixit and Ganesh Chandra Dixit guilty of offence under Sections 302/34 of I.P.C. He sentenced both the aforesaid convicts to suffer R.I. for life and to pay a fine of Rs. 20,000/- (Rupees twenty thousand) each in default, to suffer further R.I. for six months each.

Appellant No. 1-Satya Prakash Dixit is the son of Appellant No. 2-Ganesh Chandra Dixit.

2. Prosecution case, stated succinctly runs as follows:

Sarat Chandra Padhi (PW-12), who is the father of the deceased lodged the F.I.R. alleging that his daughter was done to death by Appellant No. 1 and her parents in the night of 24.08.2016 (Janmastami Day). Marriage between deceased Rupali and Appellant No. 1-Satya Prakash Dixit was solemnized as per their caste custom, rites and tradition. After marriage, for one year Rupali led a happy conjugal life in her matrimonial house. Thereafter, members of the family of her in-laws started tormenting her mentally. Even the parents-in-law of deceased Rupali asked her and her husband to live in separate mess. In the meant