Piare Lal along with his wife and nephew Makhan Singh rushed to village Khambra and on examining the site he suspected that the appellant had killed his wife and children by inflicting injuries on them and then setting them on fire post murder.
An FIR was, accordingly, lodged at the Police Station on the 22nd September, 2007 in which he further stated that the appellant had threatened a few days earlier that he would kill everyone in his family.
These appeals by way of special leave are directed against the companycurrent findings of the Sessions Judge Jalandhar and of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana whereby the appellant has been companyvicted and sentenced to death for having murdered his wife and two minor children on the 21st of September, 2007.
on the 21st September, 2007 from village Khambra that a gas cylinder had burst in his daughters house and that his son in law Tarsem Singh had Crl.
When these matters came up for hearing on the 24th July, 2009 numberice had been issued companyfined to the question of sentence only and we have heard Mr. Dushyant Crl.
Relying on these pieces of evidence the trial companyrt and the High Court companyvicted the appellant and awarded him a death sentence.
As per the prosecution story given by Piare Lal PW his daughter Rajwinder Kaur had been married to Tarsem Singh appellant about twelve years earlier.
The prosecution placed reliance on several witnesses including PW 4 Hardev Singh to whom the appellant had made an extra judicial companyfession, PW 5 Balbir Singh who had seen him companying out of the house with a ghotna pestle and the evidence of Dr. Aman Sood PW 9 who had carried the post mortem examinations on the dead bodies and opined that the injuries on the head had been caused by ghotna and that the bodies had been burnt after death.
He was present in his house in village Pandori, Masharkti District Jalandhar when he received a message at about 1100p.m.
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42 43 of 2011 sustained injuries and his daughter Rajwinder Kaur and his grand sons Harwinder Singh aged 8 years and Gurvinder Singh aged 10 years, had been killed.
