IN THE HIGH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD THE HON'BLE SMT. JUSTICE TIRUMALA DEVI EADA CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.367 OF 2013 DATE: 31.03.2026 Between:

Tupakula Balraj … Appellant and The State of A.P., by the Public Prosecutor … Respondent : JUDGMENT :

This criminal appeal is filed by the appellant–Accused No.1 against the judgment dated 25.03.2013 passed in Sessions Case No.528 of 2011 by the learned Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Hyderabad (for short ‘the trial Court’), whereby the appellant was found guilty of the offences under Sections 498-A and 304-B of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’), convicted, and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year and to pay a fine of Rs. 1,000/-, in default to undergo simple imprisonment for one month for the offence under Section 498-A IPC, and further sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for ten years and to pay a fine of Rs. 1,000/-, in default to undergo simple imprisonment for one month for the offence under Section 304-B IPC.

2. The case of the prosecution is that the accused 1 to 3 have harassed the deceased for want of dowry causing the death of the deceased within seven years of marriage. Hence,