( 1. ) THE appellants have come up in the present appeal against their convictions, by the trial Court, under Section 306, Indian Penal Code, and the various sentences imposed upon them, thereunder.

( 2. ) APPELLANT Mahavir Singh is the husband of late Laxmi, who is alleged to have committed suicide by burning herself. Roop Singh is Mahavirs elder brother, Krishna devi is latters wife and Keshar Bai is the mother. The fact of death of Laxmi on the intervening night of 11/12th November, 1983, at about 4. 30 a. m. in the residential house in I. T. I. Colony, Morar, is not in dispute. The fact of her death by suicide was reported by appellant Roop Singh at P. S. Morar immediately after at about 6. 15 a. m. and recorded by H. C. Police Rambaran Singh (P. W, 12) vide Ex. P. 11 under Section 174, criminal Procedure Code. F. I. R. Ex. P. 9, on the printed form, was also prepared on its basis. But, on the same day, i. e. , on 12. 11. 1983, Bramha Singh (P. W. 1), brother of the deceased, submitted a typed report Ex. P. 1 to the Town-Inspector in respect df the alleged offence. The sum and substance of Ex. P. 1 was that the husband of Laxmi and other members of his house-hold were