JUDGMENT :

RAJIV SHARMA, J.

1. This appeal is instituted against the judgment and order dated 15.03.2005, rendered by learned Sessions Judge, Ropar, in Sessions Trial No. 3 dated 12.03.2001, whereby appellant Harjit Kaur, who was charged with and tried for the offence punishable under Section 302 IPC, was convicted and sentenced thereunder to undergo imprisonment for life and to pay a fine of Rs.2,000/-, and in default of payment of fine to further undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of six months.

2. The case of the prosecution, in a nutshell, is that Nazar Singh made a dying declaration that on the intervening night of 14/15.10.2000, he was sleeping in his house at village Chhaju Majra. Some miscreant sprinkled kerosene oil upon him. He woke up. He saw his wife Harjit Kaur setting him ablaze with a match stick. Earlier, she had threatened to kill him. His wife was religious. He was simpleton. He had the temperamental differences with his wife, on account of which there used to be domestic quarrels. She had set him ablaze. On 15.10.2000 at about 4.00 AM, he was admitted in the Emergency Ward in Civil Hospital, Kharar, having burn injuries over his head, neck, front of the ches