The four accused persons variously armed came to the spot.
Frontal temporal and parietal bones on the right hand side were found fractured underneath injuries Nos.
4 Rama Singh under Section 302 read with Section 34 of the Penal Code and sentenced them to suffer rigorous imprisonment for life.
According to the prosecution case, accused No.
P. 3 were recovered from three different places near the canal minor and the said weapons were seized vide Exhibit its PK/1, PL/1 andPM/1.
3 Baldev Singh inflicted ghandali blow on the head and on the back of the deceased, in the medical evidence such injury caused by a ghandali has number been numbered by the doctor performing post mortem examination.
According to doctor, except injury No.
On seeing the accused persons, deceased Harmel Singh stopped his tractor.
1 and 2, which according to the opinion of the said doctor were individually sufficient to cause death in the ordinary companyrse of nature.
Therafter, Rama Singh gave kasia blow on the left side of the forehead.
1 Shyam Singh did number take part in the companymission of crime and it was only alleged that he gave lalkara, the learned Sessions Judge acquitted Shaym Singh.
3 Baldev Singh were acquitted by the learned Judge.
They stated that they had seen the said occurrence from a close quarter because they had been near the minor canal for washing clothes and were present at that time.
The autopsy on the dead body of Harmel Singh was companyducted by Dr. Khem Ram P.W. 1 at Civil Hospital Bhatinda on 1st July, 1981 at5.15p.m.
The said police officer P.W. 10 inspected the spot and prepared a site plan and recorded the statement of Ravinder Kaur, P.W. 6 and her brother Guipreet Singh minor .son of the deceased.
He numbered four injuries on the head and face.
The accused denied their companyplicity in the case and they pleaded false implication.
The prosecution case in short is that Harmel Singh deceased was the husband of Surinder Kaur P.W. 2 and father of Ravi rider Kaur P.W. 6.
According to the prosecution case, pursuant to the disclosure statements of the accused blood stained gandasa Ex.
Soap cakes and thirteen clothes to which soap had been partly applied and one wooden tape from near the canal minor at a distance of 200 yards from the place of occurrence were also seized by the police.
The learned Sessions Judge by his judgment dated 22/23rd November, 1981 companyvicted the accused No.
155 dated 21st of August, 1981.
By the impugned judgment, the High Court has affirmed the said companyviction and sentence passed by the learned Sessions Judge.
15/DB was directed against the Order of companyviction and sentence passed by the learned Sessions Judge.
The doctor found 16 injuries on the body of the deceased, four injuries were incised wounds.
The other two companyaccused namely, Sham Singh and accused No.
2 Gurdev Singh and accused No.
This appeal is directed against the judgment and Order passed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on 26th April, 1983 in Criminal Appeal No.
Surinder Kaur and her daughter Ravinder Kaur went near Harmel Singh and found him dead.
Gurdev Singh opened the attack and gave ghandasa blow on the left side of the Harmel Singh.
Thereafter, leaving Ravinder Kaur and his minor son Gurpreet Singh near the dead boy, Surinder Kaur went to the village and narrated the incident to her father Kaur Singh who had been residing with her for about two months.
On 31 st May, 1981, the deceased Hermel Singh was sowing numbermal in the field which he had taken on lease from AjaibSinghP.W. 2 Surinder Kaur after washing her clothes in the nearby canal minor was taking tea prepared by her daughter Ravinder Kaur, P.W. 6.
Then Harmel Singh fell down from the tractor.
Baldev Singh gave ghandali blow on Harmel Singh on his back and thereafter all the accused except Shyam Singh inflicted injuries from the sharp as well as from the blunt side of their respective weapon.
Baldev Singh gave ghandali blow on his head.
The turban and pair of shoes were also taken into possession and he also took into possession companytainer dolu , two aluminium cups, one batti, one small kaull and one empty bottle which were lying at a distance of about 25 yards from the dead body.
P. 2 and kasia Ex.
3 Baldev.
No witness, however, was examined by the accused in their defence except tendering documents Exhibit DE, a certified companyy of the companyplaint filed by Jit Singh and Exhibit DB, a companyy of the Order in appeal filed by Harmel Singh deceased against Order of discharge of Jit Singh in a proceeding under Section 107 read with Section 151 of the Criminal P.C. Surinder Kaur P.W. 2, the widow of the deceased, and Ravinder Kaur P.W. 6 were examined.
2 Gurdev Singh was armed with a ghandasa and accused persons emerged from the side of canal minor.
The said incident was witnessed by Surinder Kaur P.W. 2 and Ravinder Kaur, P.W. 6 and they raised alarm.
After inflicting injuries, the accused escaped from the said place with their weapons.
On the way, they met ASI Sukhdev Singh P.W. 10 near the gaushala at Bhucho mandi at about 5.00 p.m. and Surinder Kaur made her statement at 6.15 p.m. and on the basis of the said statement First Information Report was recorded at Police Station Nathana at 8.15 p.m. ASI Sukhdev Singh, P.W. 10 accompained by Surinder Kaur P.W. 2 and her father Kaur Singh and police officials went to the spot on the same day and the inquest report Exhibit P. C. was prepared and he also took blood stained earth from the place of occurrence .vide memo Exhibit.
Both of them then left the village for lodging the report of the said incident at the police post Bhucho mandi situated at a distance of about four kilometres from the place of occurrence.
Singh had a gandhali accused No.
The said criminal appeal No.
15/DB/83.
The appellant and two other co accused were arrested on 4th June, 1981, Shyam Singh companyaccused produced his gun and two live cartridges which were seized by the ASI through memo Ex.
13, rest of the injuries of the deceased companyld be caused by sharp edged weapons like gandasa and takwa used from reverse and sharp sides.
The said minor canal was close to the place of occurrence.
P. 1 gandhali.
1 Shyam Singh was armed with a single barrel gun and accused No.
