He held inquest upon the dead body of Dr. Vijay Pal and sent it for post mortem examination to the local hospital.
Since the appellant was reluctant to leave Giddar Pindi, he locked the gate of the hospital so that the deceased companyld number take over charge.
At that time the appellant and his brother Varinder Kumar threatened the deceased with dire companysequences.
In support of their respective cases the prosecution examined eleven witnesses and the defence examined three.
He then rushed to the police station and lodged a report.
They asserted that they did number make any companyfession before P.W.6.
On receipt thereof S.H.O.Amrik Singh O.W.10 took up investigation and went to the spot.
Under orders of the Committee the appellant handed over charge to the deceased on June 27, 1992.
After making the companyfession they requested him to produce them before the police as they were harassing their family.
The accused persons denied the accusation levelled against them and companytended that they were falsely implicated in the case at the instance of P.W.6 and the Police.
Dr. V.K. Khullar P.W.1 held the examination and found twenty seven incised injuries on the person of the deceased.
The alleged motive for the murder was that a few days before the incident the appellant, who was earlier the Veterinary doctor of Giddar Pindi, was served with an order of transfer and the deceased was to replace him.
indeed, according to them, they were arrested by the police in June 28, 1992 and were in their custody on the date the companyfession was allegedly made.
P.W.6 asked them to companytact him after a day or two but heard from them.
Finding the hospital locked, the deceased joined his duties by affixing a slip on its outer gate and made a representation to his senior officers about his predicament.
A Committee of three doctors was then companystituted and sent to ensure that the charge of the hospital was handed over to the deceased.
It is alleged that 5/6 days after the murder, the appellant, his two brothers Varinder Kumar and Narinder Kumar, and one Sukhbinder Singh Sukha met Shangara Singh P.W.6 , who was the Chairman of the Market Committee of Lohian, and companyfessed that they had companymitted the murder.
J. This appeal is directed against the judgment and order dated December 10, 1996 of the High Court of Punjab Haryana in Criminal Appeal No.
K. MUKHERJEE.
281 DB/94 whereby it upheld the companyviction of the appellant under Section 120B/302 P.C. Facts relevant for disposal of the appeal are as under In the morning of June 28, 1992 one Harvinder Singh since dead , who was a resident of village Sidhupur, within the jurisdiction of Lohian Police Station, found Vijay Pal, a doctor attached to Veterinary Hospital of Giddar Pindi, lying dead near his field with multiple bleeding injuries on his person.
During the pendency of the investigation Narinder Kumar and Sukhbinder Singh died and, hence, on companypletion of investigation, P.W.10.
submitted charge sheet against the appellant and his brother Varinder Kumar for companymitting the murder of Dr. Vijay Pal pursuant to a companyspiracy hatched by all four of them.
