JUDGMENT

(per the Hon’ble Sri Justice P.SAM KOSHY The instant is an appeal under Section 374(2) of the Cr.P.C filed by the appellant – accused challenging the judgment of conviction dated 10.11.2014 in S.C.No.153 of 2012 passed by the Principal Session Judge, Khammam.

2. Heard Mr. Banda Prasada Rao, learned counsel for the appellant and Mrs. Shalini Saxena, learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondent – State.

3. Vide the impugned judgment, the appellant has been found guilty for having committed the offence under Section 302 of IPC, 1860 (for short, ‘IPC’) and was sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life with a fine of Rs.1,000/- and in default of payment of fine to undergo simple imprisonment for six (06) months.

4. The facts of the case, in brief, are that on 03.07.2011 the complainant Naganaboina Komuraiah (PW.1) lodged a complaint at Police Station, Garla stating that he performed his daughter Neelamma’s marriage with a man from Ayyagaripelle, Warangal District. However, problems arose when the appellant telephoned the first husband of Neelamma (hereinafter, the ‘deceased’) and informed that he has an illicit relationship with the deceased. This led to a pa