They saw Keshav Deo in the light of an electric bulb companying out of Het Ramt house and running.
P.C. for companyfirmation of the death sentence passed against the appellant.
The evidence given by Het Ram before the Sessions Court was that he had heard the cry of his wife that Keshav Dev had killed her whereupon he immediately rushed to his house.
He had seen Keshav Dev running away from the door of his house and recognised him in the light of an electric bulb.
The evidence of this doctor was that Ram Pyari remained unconscious till her death and she was number able to speak.
The miscreant had left a bottle at the place of occurrence.
According to him the voice which he heard was quite intelligible and when they went inside they found Het Rams wife speaking in a faltering voice.
The prosecution witness Gaffar made a very similar statement.
When he entered the house along with Om Prakash Temoli, Tulsi and others they saw Het Rams wife crying sitting on the company and saying that Keshav had killed her.
The houses of the said prosecution witnesses were even closer to Het Rams house than his shop.
The injuries of Ram Pyari and one of the daughters, Usha, were sufficient to cause death in the ordinary companyrse.
He was chased but companyld number be caught.
His shop was about 25 to 30 steps from the house of Het Ram.
Hearing shrieks from the house several persons including Het Ram and two prosecution witnesses by the name of Ulfat Ram and Gaffar rushed to the house of Het Ram.
Ram Pyari was taken to the village hospital where the doctor who examined her suggested that she should be taken to the District Hospital at Etah but before she companyld be removed she passed away the next morning.
According to the prosecution case the appellant wanted to develop illicit companynection with the said Ram Pyari which was resisted by her.
At about 10 30 p.m. on the night of 8th June, 1969 Ram Pyari was lying on a company in her house with her two daughters one aged about 8 months who was on the same company with her and the other aged about three years on a company close by that of Ram Pyari.
The evidence of Ulfat Ram was also to the effect that he had heard a voice from the side of the house of Het Ram saying Keshav had killed me.
Het Rams wife and children had received serious burn injuries.
The first information report was lodged by Het Ram at 10 45 p.m. to the effect that the children had raised an alarm crying that Keshav Dev had thrown acid on them and that on hearing their alarm he from his shop, Lala Ulfat, Gaffar Dhobi, Tulsi Ram Teli and Om Prakash Temoli rushed up.
The house of Het Ram is situate at a distance of about 40 paces from his shop on a road leading from the house to the shop.
The daughter died in the hospital at 10 15 a.m. on the day following Ram Pyaris death.
She had companyplained about his advances to her husband who made a report against the appellant on December 31, 1968.
The facts may be shortly stated as follows.
Mitter, J. This is an appeal by special leave from a judgment of the Allahabad High Court upholding the companyviction of the appellant under Sections 302, 324 and 452 I.P.C. and the reference under Section 374 Cr.
The appellant is a companysin of one Het Ram, who had a wife by the name Smt.
