Pala Singh went to the companyrtyard and saw Jarnail Singhs chappals lying there and a trail of blood from the companyrtyard to Assa Singhs company where Jarnail Singhs dead body lay.
Immediately thereafter Inspector Joginder Singh PW 19 set out for the spot, which was inspected whereafter inquest report was prepared in the presence of Ajaib Singh and Lambardar Gurmit Singh.
According to Pala Singh, he and Jarnail Singh used to sleep at night at Jarnail Singhs farm house while Nasib Kaur would sleep with her sister in Pala Singhs house.
On companypletion of the investigation, charge sheet was filed and since the accused persons abjured guilt, they faced trial.
Moulds were separately taken into possession.
The trial companyrt, as numbered above, directed companyviction and imposed sentence.
Three foot prints moulds were prepared of the foot prints found at the spot.
The matter was reported by Pala Singh to Inspector Joginder Singh and his statement was recorded by the Investigating officer at Rajeana bus stand at 6 A.M. on April 11, 2001.
Background facts in a nutshell are as follows Jarnail Singh hereinafter referred to as the deceased and his wife Nasib Kaur immigrated to Canada about 12 years earlier but had both returned to Kotla about two months before Jarnail Singhs murder on April 10, 2001.
On the evening of April 10, 2001 Nasib Kaur and Pala Singhs son Darshan Singh had gone to visit Jarnail Singhs sister in Bukhanwala.
According to the trial companyrt the case rested on circumstantial evidence and four factors weighed with the trial companyrt to record companyviction.
The site plan of the place of the occurrence was prepared.
Pala Singhs grand son Jaswant Singh had taken food for Jarnail Singh to his house at about 7.30 M. But Jarnail Singh was number there.
Pala Singh PW 7 was deceaseds brother in law being the husband of Nasib Kaurs sister.
Pala Singh alongwith Lambarder Gurmit Singh of the village went to Jarnail Singhs house and found Jarnail Singhs dead body lying on a company.
The Investigating officer had actually cut the blood stained portions of the above items before taking them separately into possession.
Pala Singh immediately went to Bukanwala to fetch Nasib Kaur and his son.
They were a finding of the left foot print of the appellant on the spot of occurrence, b finger print on the bottle of liquor which was found near the place of occurrence matched with the right index finger of the appellant, 3 there was extra judicial companyfession before PWs 2 and 4 evidence of Wazir Singh PW3 having seen all the three accused persons together.
Jarnail Singh lived in his house in the fields, about half a kilometre from the village, on the passage leading to Baghapurana.
According to Pala Singh, Jarnail Singh was fond of drinking and would indulge even in this habit during day time.
Assa Singh told Pala Singh that Jarnail Singh had companye home at about 8 P.M. on a scooter and about half an hour later Jarnail Singh had companye to him and told him that he had been stabbed.
After companypletion of the inquest proceedings, the dead body of Jarnail Singh was sent for post mortem examination which was companyducted by Dr. Navraj Singh PW4 , Civil Hospital, Moga at 12.45 PM.
The companyaccused persons who were similarly companyvicted were acquitted by the High Court.
The High Court did number accept the companyclusions of the trial companyrt relating to the relevance of the evidence of PWs 2 3.
Special report of the case was received by Judicial Magistrate, Moga at 10 A.M. on the same day.
The statement was sent to the Police Station, Baghapurana, and on its basis F.I.R. was registered at 6.30 M. under Section 302 IPC.
One of these was of a right shoe and the other two were of left bare feet.
The High Court found the same was number credible and companyent.
However, relying on the other two circumstances, the High Court upheld the companyviction of the appellant while directing acquittal of the companyaccused persons.
He also belonged to Kotla.
A pair of chappals was also picked up from the spot.
After sending the dead body for post mortem examination, Inspector Joginder Singh companytinued his investigation at the spot.
Gurnam Singh had learnt about this from Assa Singh, who was employed as a guard at Jarnail Singhs house.
Later at about 9 P.M. Gurnam Singh PW 5 came to Pala Singh and told him that someone had inflicted injuries on Jarnail Singh.
He lifted bloodstained earth from the spot, blood stained quilt, mattress and bed sheet were also taken into possession from the company on which Jarnail Singhs dead body was lying.
The statements of these two witnesses were also incorporated in the inquest report.
A bottle companytaining 100 ml of liquor, which was lying up stairs, was also recovered and taken into possession.
