On this, the companyplainant got frightened and she along with her sister in law and children rushed towards Kuthar Kalan while raising cries.
When the companyplainant and her sister in law tried to take out their articles from the house, the accused threatened them to throw in the fire.
P.C. upon which FIR Ex.
1 and 4 apart from others were stated to be eye witnesses.
Thereafter the companyplainant went to Kuthar Kalan and told about this incident to her husband who informed the fire brigade and police The police reached at the spot and recorded statement of companyplainant Ex.
The accused Balbir Singh, Baldev Singh, Jai Gopal and Radhey Shayam were carrying Mashals in their hands and with the help of those Mashals they lit their thatched house on fire from three sides.
On listening their cries Santosh Kumari W o Jog Raj and Yash Pal S o Bihari Lal, both resident of Kuthar Kalan, reached at the spot.
The High Court found that there was some delay in lodging the FIR and though large number of people were claimed to have gathered at the spot, the witnesses companyld number have seen the accused persons.
PW 1/A under Section 154 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 in short Cr.
On this they both came out and saw that the above named accused were doing the same and on seeing the companyplainant and Page 0268 her sister in law the accused came towards the house of the companyplainant and challenged them that they would set their house on fire.
PW 12/A was recorded against the accused.
The appellant State filed an application for grant of leave.
Thirteen persons were examined as witnesses.
Manjit Kaur is a resident of Village Abada Barana, Distt.
The prosecution case, in brief, is that the companyplainant Smt.
Accordingly, the accused persons were acquitted.
In the meantime daughter of her sister in law aged about 13 years named Poonam came there and told that some persons were uprooting creepers from their field.
On 30.6.2003 at about 5.45 p.m. she and her sister in law Nirmala Devi were watching television in their house and their children were playing outside, while her husband Gurdial Singh had gone to Kuthar to bring medicines.
During investigation the police prepared the photographs of the spot and obtained demarcation of the land over which the house in question was situated.
Una, H.P. She is a house wife.
After companypletion of investigation charge sheet was filed and the accused persons faced trial.
