that appellant with the motive of killing his daughter had visited her matrimonial home along with PW2 and has taken her in an auto rickshaw on the pretext of visiting his mother and had strangulated her. The appellant is said to have asked PW2 to stop the auto near Savkar hospital and asked him to search for the watchman. By the time PW2 was back, the appellant was strangulating Pramila by means of a rope or string. The chain of events establish the guilt of the appellant beyond reasonable doubt and there are no other circumstances to disbelieve the theory of the prosecution. 19. The case of the prosecution is further fortified by the testimony of PW6/Sri. Anand Vilas Pawar who performed the autopsy of Pramila. The testimony of PW6 is that death had occurred due to asphyxia consequent upon ligature strangulation via ligature mark and same is antemortem and 15sufficient in ordinary course of nature to cause death. It was further deposed that death of the child in the womb of the