1. By this appeal, the appellant - accused no.1, has challenged the judgment and order dated 22.01.2016 passed by the Sessions Court, Chandrapur, in Special Case No.70 of 2014, whereby the appellant alone has been convicted and sentenced under S.302, S.201, S.120 - B and 203 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), while the other three accused persons have been acquitted. The appellant has been sentenced to suffer life imprisonment for offence under S.302 of the IPC and shorter sentences of imprisonment for the other offences, with the substantive sentences running concurrently. As there is no eyewitness to the incident, this is a case of circumstantial evidence.

2. The facts of the present case can be summarized as follows: -

(A) The appellant and his deceased wife Harsha were married in the year 2001. It was claimed by her father i.e. PW1 Patruji Bhoyar that the appellant and his wife were having disturbed marital life despite having two sons and they used to frequently quarrel on the alleged illicit relation of appellant with one Pushpa. It appears from the material on record that the appellant and his wife had left from Mokhala for Chandrapur on 05.01.2014 to visit a doctor leaving beh