Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302, 201 - Murder- Appellant was
assigned the construction of house by the deceased woman
C - They developed intimacy and appellant started living with
her - Informant found that deceased woman and her children
not seen for few days by neighbours - Their dead bodies
exhumed from the soak pit next to the toilet of the house of
deceased woman - Conviction and death sentence by courts
D below - Held: No interference with the conviction and sentence
- The convict did not offer convincing explanation as to why
he did not report prolonged absence of the deceased to the
police - The convict was a mason and also a civil-works
contractor, and was, therefore, competent to dig a soak-pit and
E dispose of the three bodies in that soak-pit and then make a
brick covering thereon - There was not an iota of doubt as to
his living with the deceased in the same house as her husband
- The factum of his having executed documents indicative of
his marriage to. the deceased as also her 'Declaration' to
F transfer her property to him, in the event of her death provided
compelling motive for his having committed the crime of
murdering her and her two minor children - The convict was
logically. found, beyond reasonable doubt, to have committed
the murder of the three deceased - Sentence uls.201 not
G interfered with -As regards offence uls.302, though the action
of the convict was extremely brutal, grotesque diabolical and
revolting, incarceration for a further period of 30 years, without
remission, in addition to the sentence already undergone would be appropriate punishment in the facts and A
circumstances of the case - Sentence/Sentencing.