By the Court.—The present Criminal Appeal has been filed by the appellant/accused against the judgment and order dated 18.10.2012 passed by Sri Mangal Prasad, Additional District and Sessions Judge (Court No. 7), Ghaziabad, in Sessions Trial No. 854 of 2009 (State v. Rajesh Jha) under Sections 498A, 304B, 120B I.P.C and Section 3/4 D.P Act, P.S Indirapuram, District Ghaziabad, whereby the appellant has been convicted under Sections 304B, 498A I.P.C and Section 4 D.P. Act and he has been, further, sentenced to undergo life imprisonment, three years simple imprisonment and Rs. 10000/- fine and, further, one year simple imprisonment and Rs. 5000/- fine respectively with usual order to undergo imprisonment of further three months and one month for default in payment of fine.

2. Briefly stated, the prosecution case is that on 22.3.2009 at 12:30 p.m. Krishna Madho Jha gave a written report Exihibit (Ka-1), addressed to S.O., Indirapuram, stating therein that his daughter (Anuradha) was married with Rajesh Jha on 13.6.2004. Immediately after the marriage, Rajesh Jha started to torture his daughter. He was alcoholic and took drugs. He used to, abuse his daughter for dowry and daily