Shri Sehgal, Magistrate, P.W. 9, recorded her statement that night and stated in his numbere Blood transfusion is taking place through the right forearm and companysequently the right hand of the patient is number free.
The same day, at 9 15 p.m., Dr. Miss Dalbir Dhillon sent a numbere to the police saying My patient Bimla Devi is actually ill.
I therefore request that a case may be registered and her statement be recorded, immediately.
Her companydition is very serious.
She managed to go out of the house in April 1956, but Romesh Chander and Suresh Chander, brothers of the appellant, caught hold of her and forcibly dragged her inside the house where she was severely beaten.
Thereafter, she was kept locked inside a room.
I am told by her that deliberate attempt has been made by her husband, mother in law and brother in law and sister in law.
Appeal by special leave from the judgment and order dated May 23, 1958, of the Punjab High Court in Criminal Appeal No.
177 of 1959.
In his letter he said My sister Bimla Devi Sharma is lying in death bed.
I was also told that she was kept locked in a room for a long time and was beaten by all the above and was starved.
Jai Gopal Sethi and R. L. Kohli, for the appellant.
She may companylapse any moment.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by RAGHUBAR DAYAL, J. This appeal, by special leave, is against the order of the Punjab High Court dismissing the appellants appeal against his companyviction under s. 307, Indian Penal Code.
Bimla Devi, P. W. 7, was married to the appellant in October, 1951.
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Criminal Appeal No.
515 of 1957.
She was, however, ill treated and her health deteriorated due to alleged maltreatment and deliberate undernourishment.
She was denied food for days together and used to be given gram husk mixed in water after five or six days.
April 24.
Their relations got strained by 1953 and she went to her brothers place and stayed there for about a year, when she returned to her husbands place at the assurance of the appellants maternal uncle that she would number be maltreated in future.
K. Khanaa, R. H. Debhar and D. Gupta, for the respondent.
The appellant and his mother went to the hospital and tried their best to take her back to the house, but were number allowed to do so by the lady Doctor.
In 1956, she was deliberately starved and was number allowed to leave the house and only sometimes a morsel or so used to be thrown to her as alms are given to beggars.
On June 5, 1956, she happened to find her room unlocked, her mother in law and husband away and, availing of the opportunity, went out of the house and managed to reach the Civil Hospital, Ludhiana, where she met lady Doctor Mrs. Kumar, P. W. 2, and told her of her sufferings.
Social workers got interested in the matter and informed the brother of Bimla Devi, one Madan Mohan, who came down to Ludhiana and, after learning all facts, sent information to the Police Station by letter on June 16, 1956.
It is number possible to get the thumb impression of the right hand thumb of the patient.
