S.J. VAZIFDAR, J.

Criminal Appeal-D-922-DB of 2014 is an appeal against the order of the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Karnal in Sessions Case No. 838 of 2013 holding the appellant Ram Kumar Kalyan guilty of the murder of one Sramveer and convicting him for the commission of offences punishable under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and sentencing him to undergo rigorous imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Rs. 20,000/- and in default thereof to further undergo rigorous imprisonment for six months’.

Criminal Appeal-AD-12 of 2015 is an appeal by the complainant Renuka Kalyan widow of Nabheet Kalyan and the said Sramveer sister, against the same order of the learned Sessions Judge acquitting the appellant in CRA-D-922-DB of 2014 in respect of the offence punishable under section 307 IPC and acquitting Om Lata Kalyan, her mother-in-law of the offence under section 307, 302 read with section 34 of the IPC.

2. It would be convenient to deal with both the appeals by a common order and judgment for they relate to the same incident and the same complaint.

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