6 and 7 by finding them guilty of the commission of offences under Sections 364/34 and 302/34 of IPC. Accordingly, accused nos. 6 and 7 were also convicted and were sentenced to undergo rigorous life imprisonment on each count. The present batch of appeals assail the order/judgment dated 26.03.2015 of the Patna High Court. BRIEF FACTS 4. Shorn of unnecessary details, the facts reveal that deceased Neelam was the wife of one Ashok Kumar who happened to be the son of PW3/Ganesh Prasad Singh, and the informant PW18/Ramanand Singh was the brother of Ashok Kumar. The informant’s case was that at the relevant point of time, the deceased was residing with her husband and the informant in the house belonging to her late father Jang Bahadur Singh, who 3 Passed in Govt. Appeal (DB) No. 16/1992, Criminal Appeal (DB) No. 219/1992 and Criminal Appeal (DB) No. 271/1992 Criminal Appeal No. 1031/2015 and others Page 3 of 26belonged to Simaltalla. The house was partially occupied by the deceased, her