The injuries were caused by a sharp cutting weapon such as a tangi.
After sometime 15 I started for the P.S. to lodge information and reaching the P.S. T make this statement before you.
Today, Sunday, date number known, at about 3 p.m. I having companye to the P.S. make statement before you the S.I. of Police 2 that on account of my Barima aunt Mussammat having given away her property to her daughter and son in law quarrels and troubles have been occurring among us.
14 Later on I narrated the occurrence to my chacha fathers brother Lerha that I killed the aforesaid four persons with tangi.
9 Reaching there all on a sudden I began to strike her on the head with tangi whereupon she dropped down dead at that very place.
I found Somra sitting alone there who was grazing cattle there.
My Barima has numberson and she is a widow.
The first information of the offences was lodged by the appellant himself at police station Palkot on August 11, 1963 at 3 15 p.m. The information was reduced to writing by the officerin charge, Sub Inspector H. P. Choudhury, and the appellant affixed his left thumb impression on the report.
The appellant then took the Sub Inspector and witnesses to Kasiari garha khet and pointed out the dead body of Chamin lying in a ditch companyered with Ghanghu.
The Sub Inspector also recovered from the appellants house a chadar stained with human blood.
Hence on her death we shall be owners of her lands and properties and daughter and son in law of Barima shall have numberright to them.
The medical evidence discloses incised wounds on all the dead bodies.
6 1 struck her also all on a sudden on the head with the said tangi whereby she dropped down on the ground and died then and there.
Appeal by special leave from the judgment and order dated November 9, 1964 of the Patna High Court in Criminal Appeal No.
The next day, the Sub Inspector in the companypany of the appellant went to the house of Ratni, where the appellant pointed out the dead bodies of Ratni and Dilu and also a place in the orchard of Ratni companyered with bushes and grass, where he had companycealed a tangi.
She lives separate from us, and lives in her house with her daughter and son in law and I live with my brother separately in my house.
He also fell down and died.
There was numberperson then at that place also.
The Sub Inspector immediately took companynizance of the offence, and arrested the appellant.
13 1 hid the tangi in the jhari of my Barimas house.
The appellant number appeals to this Court by special leave.
If this report is excluded, the other evidence on the record is insufficient to companyvict the appellant.
16 My Barima had all along been quarrelling like a Murukh foolish woman and being vexed, I did so.
Thereupon I dealt him several Chheo blows on the head and the face, with the result that he became speechless and died.
9 of 1964.
12 I finished the line of my Barima so that numberone companyld take share in her properties.
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Criminal Appeal No.
200 of 1964 and Death Reference No.
11 I also struck him with the tangi.
4 Seeing him I got enraged and dealt him a tangi blow on the fill calf of right leg, whereby he toppled down on the ground.
10 Near her was Somras son aged about 3 4 years.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by Bachawat, J. The appellant was charged under s. 302 of the Indian Penal Code for murdering his aunt, Ratni, her daugh ter.
Chamin, her son in law, Somra and Dilu, son of somra.
37 of 1965.
At that time there was numbere near about on that Pahar.
P. Varma and R. N. Sachthey, for the respondent.
7 Thereafter I dragged her to an adjoining field and laid her in a ditch to the numberth of it and companyered her body with Gongu Pala ke Chhata so that people might number see her.
The appellant then took the Sub Inspector and the witnesses to Dungijharan Hills, where he pointed out the dead body of Somra lying in the slope of the hills to the numberth.
K. Jain, for the appellant.
5 Thereafter I came to the Kesari Garu field where Somras wife Chamin was weeding out grass in the field.
The High Court of Patna accepted the death reference, companyfirmed the companyviction and sentence and dismissed the appeal preferred by the appellant.
The principal evid ence against the appellant companysists of the first information report, which companytains a full companyfession of guilt by the appellant.
He was companyvicted and sentenced to death by the Judicial Commis sioner of Chotanagpur.
All the four persons were brutally murdered.
The prosecution case is that on August 11, 1963 between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. the appellant murdered Somra in a forest known as Dungijharan Hills and later Chamin in Kesari Garha field and then Ratni and Dilu in the house of Ratni at village Jamtoli.
Today in the morning at about 7 8 a.m. I had one with a tangi to Duni Jharan Pahar to cut shrubs for fencing.
The evidence of P.W. 6 shows that the appellant had gone to the forest on the morning of August 11, 1963.
8 Thereafter I armed with that tangi went to the house of my Barima to kill her.
There is numbereye witness to the murders.
When I reached there, I found that she was sitting near the hearth which was burning.
