Short Note : 1. The prosecution case against the appellant was that the deceased and the accused were employed as labourers. On October 20-10-1975 after the deceased and accused had returned home, the accused demanded a sum of Rs. 2/- which the deceased had received as her daily wages from the employer. The deceased thereupon replied that the said amount has been handed over by her to her mother-in-law Damotabai. On this reply by the deceased, the accused got enraged. He then poured some kerosene oil on her sari and then lighted a match-stick with which he set the clothes of the deceased on fire. The accused thereafter ran away. Held : From the aforesaid evidence, it would, therefore, appear that immediately after the deceased was rushed to the hospital and there was no occasion for being tutored or instigated by any one. She assigned the cause of her then condition to the act of her clothes being set on fire by the appellant. There was no reason then for the deceased to falsely implicate the appellant. She could not be driven to commit suicide on such a petty affair. The accused must have got annoyed because his wife the deceased Bhikubai refused to oblige him by plying the wages she has received on that day. If there was any other reason for the accused to get provoked for committing such an act, then the burden was on him to establish it by reliable evidence. This he has failed to do. Under these circumstances when the two dying declarations made by the deceased fully implicate the accused and the dying declarations are proved by independent and reliable witnesses we find no reason to reject those statements. 2. As, in our opinion, the prosecution has established beyond any resonate doubt that the deceased was subjected to burning in the circumstances appearing in the dying declarations (Exs P-1 and P-15), the accused must be held guilty for causing her death both with the intention as also with the knowledge for causing her death in the aforesaid manner. Appeal dismissed.