v\201 REPORTABLE
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CRIMINAL APPEAL NOS.113-114 OF 2010
Brajendrasingh ... Appellant
Versus
State of Madhya Pradesh ... Respondent
J U D G M E N T
Swatanter Kumar, J.
1. The present appeals are directed against the judgment of
the High Court of Madhya Pradesh, Bench at Indore, confirming
the judgment of conviction and order of sentence of imposition
of extreme penalty of death by the Trial Court.
2. The disaster that can flow from unchastity of a woman and
the suspicions of a man upon the character of his wife cannot be
more pathetically stated than the facts emerging from the
present case.
As per the case of the prosecution, a man suspecting his wife of
having illicit relations with his neighbor, killed his three
young children, namely, Varsha, Lokesh and Mayank, who were
1 asleep, sprinkled kerosene oil on his wife and put her on fire.
However, when called upon to make a statement under Section 313
of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short, Cr.P.C.),
the accused rendered th...