Judgment

KRISHNA IYER, J.:- In a rural region of Andhra Pradesh freudian fury or explosion of six jealousy expressed itself in a gruesome murder of a young woman and her tender child by the accused, a young woman with an only child ten years old, all because, notwithstanding both being married, they had invested amorous affections in a middleaged libertine, P. W. 16, conveniently a widower. It is an admitted fact that the accused, although married, was keeping illicit relations with P. W. 16, a shepherd, but she discovered that lately her paramour was on flirting contacts with the deceased. This knowledge angered her so much that she extinguished the life of her rival on November 4, 1971, in the afternoon in a jungle, manipulating her murderous venture so cleverly that for a time people thought that she was the murdered and searched for her body. Closer enquiry revealed that the victim was Ansuya and other innocent one her baby less than two years old.

2. Shri Kathuria, appearing as amicus curiae, has presented a painstakingly meticulous argument on behalf of the prisoner, who has been condemned to death by the court below. It is but meet that we appreciate the industrious advocacy e