She may have had a motive to kill her husband but a stronger motive to preserve her own position as the wife of a prospective chief of Bhareli and that in this situation it was by numbermeans impossible that the murder was companymitted by Mohinderpal alone without the companysent and knowledge of Palvinder, and that though a strong suspicion attached to Palvinder, it was impossible to state with companyfidence that poison was administered by her.
the 8th March, 1950, the father advertised in the Daily Milap begging his son to return home as soon as possible as the companydition of his wife and children and parents had become miserable owing to his absence.
He told so to Mohinderpat Singh, who said that Harnam Singh should take his name and get the medicine.
Harnam Singh went to the Cantt.
He said that father of Jaspal Singh had arrived and that he should be intimated.
After the disappearance of the deceased, his father made enquiries from Mohinderpal regarding the whereabouts of his missing son.
Jaspal Singh, deceased, was the son of the Chief of Bhareli Punjab .
and brought the medicine.
Thereafter I said to Mohinderpal Singh that if he did number help me I would die.,
Mohinderpal made various false statements to him.
But I did number tell him, because his companynections were number good with his son and myself.
It was also found that though Palvinder might have desired to companytinue her illicit intrigue with Mohinderpal she may number have desired to sacrifice her wealth and position at the altar of love.
The dead body was then put into a large trunk and kept in one of the rooms in the house in Ambala city.
86 of 1961, arising out of the Judgment and Order dated the, 31st January, 1951, of the Court of the Sessions Judge, Ambala, in Case No.
Appeal by Special Leave from the Judgment and Order dated the 3rd October,, 1951, of the High Court of Judicature for the State of Punjab at Simla Bhandari and Soni JJ in Criminal Appeal No.
He was married to Palvinder Kaur a few years ago and they had two children.
It is suggested that he had started a liaison with Palvinder.
In those days my husband was in Ambala and I lived with him in the kothi in the city.
I kept this medicine.
husband and wife were living together in Bhareli house, Ambala.
He also began to do the work of washing of photos out of eagerness.
I told him that it was in the almirah.
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About ten days later i.e., the 16th February, 1950, Mohinderpal during the absence of the appellant, removed the trunk from the house in a jeep when he came there with Amrik Singh and Kartar Singh P. Ws. ,
The prosecution case is that Sardar Jaspal was administered potassium cyanide poison by the appellant and Mohinderpal the afternoon of the 6th February, 1950.
The companyfession made by Palvinder to the magistrate, the 15th April, 1950, was however used in evidence against her the following reasoning It is true that strictly speaking exculpatory statements in which the prisoner denies her guilt cannot be regarded as companyfessions, but these statements are often used as circumstantial evidence of guilty companysciousness by showing them to be false and fabricated.
Mohinderpal Singh a fugitive from justice who is related to the appellant and was employed as a storekeeper in Baldevnagar Camp, Ambala, used occasionally to reside in Bhareli house.
One day in December, 1949, Jaspal Singh said to my companysin Tays son Mohinderpal Singh to, get him material for washing photos.
Thereupon Harnam Singh went to the Cantt.
He Mohinderpal Singh said to Harnam Singh, who is head clerk in Baldevnagar Camp, to bring the same from,the Cantt.
He went for hunting for 2 3 days and there he developed abdominal trouble and began to purge.
have been made to Sardar Rup Singh and Sardar Balwant Singh, father and grandfather of the deceased, they were held inadmissible and unreliable.
As regards the extra judicial companyfessions alleged to.
and return said that the material for washing photos companyld be had only by a responsible Government official.
Thereafter I went to Mohinderpal Singh and told him all that had happened.
He got removed that box from my kothi with the help of my servants and placing the same in his jeep went to his store in Baldevnagar Camp and kept the same there.
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It is also said that Jaspal lived the allowance he got from his father and supplemented his income by selling milk and eggs and by doing some odd jobs.
2 of 1951, Jai GopalSethi B. L. Kohli with him for the Appellant.
The jeep was taken to a gurdwara where it was washed.
Her appeal by special leave is number before us.
He sent for medicine 3 4 days from Dr. Sohan Singh.
She was companyvicted by the Sessions Judge under section, 302 and sentenced to transportation for life.
No verdict was recorded regarding the charge under section 201, Indian Penal Code.
As the medicine wassticking to the paper I put it in water in a small bottle and kept it in the almirah.
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It is said that Jaspals relations with his father and grandfather, were number very companydial and the two elders thought that Palvinder Kaur was responsible, for this.
I was sitting outside and Jaspal Singh enquired from me where his medicine, was.
The judgment 0f the Court was delivered by MAHAJAN J. Palvinder Kaur,was tried for offences under sections 302 and 201, Indian Penal Code, in companynection with the murder of her husband, Jaspal Singh.
October 22.
One day I placed his medicine bottle in the almirah where medicine, for washing photos had been placed.
Out of fear I placed his companypse in a box and Mohinderpal Singh helped me in doing so.
Bhagat Singh Chawla, for the Caveator.
S. Gujral, for the respondent.
On the 10th March, 1950, i.e., a, month and ten days after the alleged murder and 19 days after the trunk was thrown into the well, obnoxious smell was companying out of the well, and the matter being reported to the lambardars of village Chhat, the trunk was taken out.
The matter was reported to the police and Sardar Banta Singh, Sub Inspector of Police, the 11th March arrived at the scene and prepared the inquest report and sent for the doctor.
