JUDGMENT :

Siddharth, J.

1. Heard Sri Anoop Trivedi, learned Senior Counsel assisted by Sri Ram Singh Kushwaha and Sri Ankit Shukla, learned counsels for the appellant and learned A.G.A for the State.

2. Above criminal appeals have been preferred against the judgment and order dated 12.01.2001 passed by VIIth Additional Sessions Judge, Kanpur Nagar, in Session Trial No. 960 of 1995 by which the appellant, Akhilesh Kumar Mishra, has been convicted and sentenced for life under Section 304-B IPC, while appellants, Smt. Meera Jha and Jagdanand Jha, have been convicted and sentenced to 8 years rigorous imprisonment. All the appellants have been convicted and sentenced under Section 498-A IPC for 2 years rigorous imprisonment and under Section 4 of D.P. Act to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year. The appellants are acquitted of alternative charge under Section 302 IPC.

3. Prosecution case is that informant, Shyam Shanker Mishra, married his daughter, Sudha, three years ago to the accused, Akhilesh Kumar Mishra. Rs. 51,000/- was given in cash and other goods were given in dowry but accused, Akhilesh Kumar Mishra, was demanding a motorcycle and a plot and was threatening to kill his dau