affair and they performed love marriage. One daughter Dimple, aged about 1½ years was born out of their wed-lock. On some ideological differences, there was dispute between the appellant and the deceased and they decided to live separately. On 31.03.2011, an agreement was executed before Notary N.P. Swarnkar (PW-3) by the appellant and the deceased for living separately. Thereafter, in the evening of 31.03.2011, the deceased left the house of the appellant and was residing in her parents' house which was situated in the same locality. On 01.04.2011, the deceased was called by the appellant to his house for making search of his identity card. When the deceased went to the house of the appellant, the appellant took him in a room and closed the room from inside, and gave repeated adze ( basula ) blows to the deceased as a result of which she sustained multiple serious injuries. Helas Sahu (father of the appellant) was shouting that the appellant was beating his wife. On hearing this, PW-7 Kumari Bai alongwith her neighbours namely PW-2 Jugnu, PW-9 Rohit, PW-10 Oman, PW-4 Yashwant Sahu and PW-8 Yogeshwar Sahu reached the house of the appellant and at that time, the room of the appellant was closed from the inside. They broke open the door of the room of the appellant and saw that the deceased was lying on the cot in a pool of blood in unconscious condition and the appellant was sitting in the corner of his room with adze ( basula ) in his hand. Thereafter, they took the deceased to District Hospital, Rajnandgaon where Doctors having examined the deceased, declared her dead.
