Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.

1. Heard Sri Noor Mohammad, learned counsel for the appellant in the present appeal as well as in connected Criminal Appeal No. 125 of 2013 and Sri Irshad Hussain, learned A.G.A. for the State.

2. The Criminal Appeal No. 2416 of 2015 has been preferred by the accused-applicant Ashra Ram S/o Jhabbu Lal and Crl. Appeal No. 125 of 2013 by Smt. Seema W/o Jhabbu and Jhabbu S/o Mangre, which arise out of S.T. No. 656 of 2007, (State Vs. Asha Ram and two others), u/s 498-A, 304-B IPC and Section ¾ D.P. Act, P.S. Banda, District Shahjahanpur, pertaining to Crime No. 152 of 2007, wherein the appellants have been held guilty and awarded following punishment and all the sentences are directed to run concurrently:-

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Sr. No.	Name	304-B IPC	498-A IPC	¾ D.P. Act
1	Asha Ram	Life imprisonment	3 Years R.I., Fine Rs. 3000/-, In default of payment of fine, additional imprisonment of 3 months	3 Years R.I., Fine Rs. 3000/-, In default of payment of fine, additional imprisonment of 3 months
2	Smt. Seema	7 years R.I.	2 Years R.I. Fine Rs. 2000/-, In default of payment of fine, additional imprisonment of two months	2 Years R.I. Fine Rs. 2000/-, In default of payment of fine, additional imprisonment of two months
3	Jhabbu Lal	7 years R.I.	2 Years R.I. Fine Rs. 2000/-, In default of payment of fine, additional imprisonment of two months	2 Years R.I. Fine Rs. 2000/-, In default of payment of fine, additional imprisonment of two months

4. Since both the appeals arise out of common judgment, they are being taken up together.

5. In brief the facts of the case are that informant, Dharmai Lal (PW-1) had married his daughter, Neeraj Devi, one year prior to the written complaint made by him dated 27.5.2007 to Asha Ram (appellant no. 1) according to Hindu Rites after having given dowry according to his capacity, but the appellant no. 1-Asha Ram (husband), Smt. Seema- appellant no. 2, (wife of Jhabbu Lal) and father of Asha Ram namely, Jhabbu Lal- appellant no. 3, were not satisfied with the said dowry and were demanding C.D., T.V. and a box, by way of additional dowry and due to non-fulfillment of the same, they used to harass and beat his daughter- Neeraj Devi (deceased). After some time, the informant had brought back the deceased to his home and six days prior to the incident, accused-appellant no. 1 had taken away the deceased and at that point of time, the PW-1 had expressed his inability, due to poverty, to provide C.D. etc., thereafter, the PW-1 (informant) received information on the date of making the said written complaint that his daughter had died and when he reached his daughter's in-law's home, he found that her dead body was kept on a cot there. The accused persons had murdered his daughter for non-fulfillment of demand of dowry.

6. Pursuant to the said written report, Ext. Ka-1, Constable Vijay Singh, Head Mohrrir, registered a criminal case against the appellants being Crime No. 152 of 2007, u/s 304-B IPC and ¾ D.P. Act and prepared chick F.I.R. (Ext. Ka-5) and made entry of this case in G.D. (Ext. Ka-6) at report No. 27, time 05:55 hours, on 27.5.2007, whereafter the investigation in the matter was handed over to the C.O., Puvanya, Sri K.P. Singh Yadav, who was first I.O. of this case, who after visiting place of occurrence prepared site plan (Ext. Ka-4) at the instance of the informant and got conducted Panchayatnama of the deceased, a report of which is Ext. Ka-5, prepared letter to C.M.O. (Ext. Ka-8) Challan Nash, Ext. Ka-9, Seal Mohar (Ext. Ka-10), Photo Nash (Ext. Ka-11) and, thereafter, sent dead body of the deceased to district hospital for conducting post-mortem, (P.M. report, Ext. K