namely, Siki (P.W.7) slept in the front/passage room adjacent to the spot room while the appellant along with her daughter Binika slept on the outer verandah. Around the midnight, when P.W.15 woke up to urinate, she found the appellant in the front/passage room where P.W.7 was sleeping. Finding the appellant in that room, P.W.15 enquired from her as to why she was standing there but the appellant did not give any reply. While she was returning after passing urine, she heard the shout of the deceased and rushed inside the house and found the appellant coming out of the inner room with severe burnt injuries in a naked condition. In the meantime, P.W.7 woke up and helped the deceased to lie on the ground. P.W.15 along with P.W.7 tried to extinguish the fire from the body of the deceased. P.W.15 then enquired from the deceased as to how he caught fire on his body to which the latter replied that the appellant poured kerosene on his body and set him on fire. P.W.7 called an autorickshaw in which he along with P.W.15 took the deceased to Sahu clinic and then to C.W.S. Hospital, however, the doctor referred the deceased to Ispat General Hospital, Rourkela and accordingly, the deceased was admitted in I.G.H., but during the course of the treatment, on 28.06.2011, the deceased succumbed to his injuries. P.W.15 stated in the F.I.R. that the