PW-1 shows that both deceased and accused were married in 1995. In the year 2002, the accused purchased a house and both started living together. They have four children and the eldest one was studying in IX class at the time of incident. DW-1 Krishna Narain Pathak is second son as he has stated that he was in school and was informed by his elder brother that mother has died by burning herself. He has further said that at that time he was living in hostel and used to come on every four months. He has said that at that time only the youngest brother was living with parents. At the time of statement (recorded in court on 17.11.2017), he was 19 years in age which means that at the time of incident he must have been of about 13 years in age. His deceased mother was a non earning wife. Therefore, natural inference will be that the expenses of study and hostel expenses must have been borne by the accused-appellant. It also shows that he was earning at least that much that he could afford his study by keeping him in hostel and that he was not spending all his earning on drinking. Moreover, he after seven years of marriage, purchased a house where he, deceased and children were living and it also shows that his financial position was not so bad.
