CRLA/692/2008 of THE STATE OF A.P., REP BY PP., Vs ULAVALA VENKATESWARA RAO AND 3 OTHERS,

THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K.SREENIVASA REDDY CRIMINAL APPEAL No.692 of 2008 JUDGMENT: This Criminal Appeal is preferred by the State against the Judgment dated 13.04.2007 passed in SC No.401 of 2003 by the learned II Additional Assistant Sessions Judge, Guntur whereby and whereunder the respondents herein/A.1 to A.4 was found not guilty of the offences punishable under Sections 306, 506 and 420 IPC, accordingly, they were acquitted of the said charges. 2. Case of the prosecution, in brief, is as follows. One Thota Yesu Rajyam (hereinafter referred to, as „the deceased) is elder daughter of P.W.1 and L.W.2-Koteswaramma. P.W.1 was a Carpenter. A.4, who is none other than brother of A.1, was residing backside of house of P.W.1 in Kattavari Street, Old Guntur. A.2 and A.3 are parents of A.1. The deceased stopped her studies nearly two years prior to the incident, after completing 8th class, when P.W.1 came to know that the deceased and A.1 fell in love. Later, the deceased was doing household work in home. A.1 lured her under the illusion of love and the deceased also fell in love with A.1. When A.1 refused to 2 SRK, J Crl.A.No.692 of 2008 marry her two months prior to the incident, the