Sikkim Court June 1985 Judgments

Urgen Sherpa Vs. State of Sikkim

Court: Sikkim

Reported in: 1985CriLJ1988

R. Dayal, J. 1. This appeal is directed against the judgment dt. 6th April, 1985 of the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Sikkim convicting the appellant Urgen Sherpa under Section 304, IPC, and sentencing him to undergo rigorous imprisonment for seven years for having caused the death of his wife, Shrimati Pema Sherpani.2. The prosecution case, in brief, as disclosed at the trial, is that on 17th Dec. 1982 the victim Shrimati Pema Sherpani, wife of the appellant, who had gone to attend the death ceremony of a neighbour came back home at Rongli Bazaar late in the evening when her mother-in-law Shrimati Chokey Lhamu accused her that she had gone in search of another husbands since she did not like the appellant and then both the mother-in-law and the appellant made up their mind to kill her. At that time Pema Sherpani was breast-feeding her infant child. The appellant snatched the child from her and hurled on her a burning lamp to set her terylene saree ablaze. Unable to bear the pain ...