JUDGMENT AND ORDER :

Manojit Bhuyan, J.

1. The appellant Reena Hazarika has been convicted under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code for causing the death of her husband Bipul Hazarika, aged about 42 years and sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for life with fine of Rs. 1000/- and with default stipulations.

2. The case of the prosecution is that in the intervening night of 10.05.2013 and 11.05.2013, the appellant killed her husband inside their one-room rented tin shed house by inflicting multiple chop wounds with a knife. The said knife which was recovered by Police and seized vide Seizure List (Ext.-2) is about 1 ft. long with the iron part constituting seven inches with a bent sharp point. Ejahar in the case was lodged by Monoj Kumar Deka (PW-1), who is one of the landlords of the room rented out to the appellant and the deceased. According to him, having seen Bipul Hazarika lying dead in the morning hours of 11.02.2013, he informed the matter to the Police over telephone. That later when he asked the appellant about the incident, she stated that her husband had been torturing her since last few days under the influence of liquor and raising commotion and being fed up with such co

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