18.I have considered the evidence of P.W.1 – Aswathappa, who is the father of the deceased, who speaks about the marriage held between appellant/accused and his daughterSaraswathi. During the marriage, he gave 15 sovereigns of jewels and Rs.50,000/- cash to the appellant. After the marriage they lived happily for a period of six months only and after that the appellant/accused used to assault and harass the deceased to bring Rs.50,000/- from her father. Therefore, he sent the deceased to her parents house and informed her to come back, only after fulfilling his demands. At that time, the deceased was pregnant and she delivered a female child. After the delivery, neither the appellant nor his parents came to see the child. In the meantime, the appellant sent a divorce notice to the deceased. After conducting panchayat, father of the deceased transferred a property of 3 cents vacant land to the appellant, his deceased daughter and grand daughter. For that he had not paid any amount. Thereafter, the appellant/accused took his wife to his home and even within a week he started assaulting his daughter and driven out her from the matrimonial home. With no other option, the deceased lodged a complaint before the Denkanikottai Police Station by making the allegations of demand of dowry. In which the police personnel conducted enquiry and compromised the parties. Even after that the deceased lived for 1 ½ years in her parents house. Thereafter panchayat was conducted in the presence of P.W.9-Venkatesh and other villagers. On that panchayat, the deceased was sent along with the appellant/accused to live together. Thereafter, they lived together for a period of 11 days only. During that time, the deceased called her father through phone and informed about the harassment and cruelty caused by the https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/ appellant/accused and she further informed that she will come
