By considering the oral evidence on record and taking into consideration the post-mortem report, the Appellant was convicted for the offence by attributing motive that she has strangulated her because the new born is a baby girl. There is no evidence on record to draw such a conclusion against the Appellant. It is clear from the evidence on record, as deposed by PW-7,...

 Sentencing is not a routine tailpiece to conviction. Once guilt is recorded, the Sessions Judge enters a distinct judicial stage in which fairness, statutory discipline, and recorded reasons become critical; many otherwise sustainable convictions are exposed to appellate criticism because the sentencing part is casual, mechanical, or incomplete.Under the Bharatiya Nagarik ...

 11.11. Further, even at the stage of the earlier suit instituted by the predecessors-in-interest of the Appellant-Plaintiffs, their consistent case was one of lawful title to the suit property. No plea of adverse possession was ever raised against the Respondent-Defendants. The Appellants wish to rely upon the additional evidence, namely, the entries in the General La...

11.17. In such a backdrop, when the Appellant-Plaintiffs themselves asserted title on the basis of long and continuous possession through their predecessors, the subsequent attempt to introduce additional evidence at the appellate stage assumes little legal significance. Once the trial had concluded and the decree was under challenge in appeal, the Appellants could not be p...

 The criminal antecedents of Respondent No. 2 also assume significance. The prosecution has brought on record multiple prior cases registered against him, including offences involving violence and use of arms. Though it has been contended that such cases arose out of political rivalry and have culminated in acquittal, such a contention cannot, at this st...