balance of mitigating and aggravating circumstances would not lie in favour of the appellant and he has committed a heinous crime by killing his own daughter who was in advanced pregnancy stage in a merciless manner. Therefore, it is prayed to dismiss the present appeal and confirm the death sentence awarded by the High Court. 99. Heard the learned counsel appearing for the respective parties at length. We have also gone through in detail the judgement and order passed by the Trial Court and High Court. DISCUSSION AND FINDING 10. After considering the rival contentions and on perusal of the evidence tendered by the prosecution in general and in particular the depositions of PW-1, PW-2 and PW-3 it would clearly emerge that wife of the appellant (PW-1) has spoken in no uncertain terms that her husband was nursing grudge against their daughter namely the deceased Ms. Pramila for having married a person from a lower caste and thereby it had tarnished his image in the society. She has