As regards the blood stains on his clothes, the accused stated that he got those stains when he went near the dead body of the deceased.
The case of the prosecution is that the accused and Bapu PW 10 were friends and used to take their meals as boarders with Hansabai, mother of Ansuya deceased, in Dhanji Street, Bombay.
The dead body of Anusuya deceased was found lying in that room in a pool of blood.
The Head Constable then took the accused along with witness Pandurang and others to the police post.
I found that there was a blood stained knife lying near the dead body of Anusuya.
Inspector Deshpande PW 15 , accompanied by Sub Inspector Baval PW 16 , then went to the police post.
Anusuya, who was already married, then started a love affair with Bapu.
The same was found to have been companyroborated by the presence of blood stains on the clothes of the accused and the recovery of blood stained knife from him.
Death, in the opinion of the doctor, was due to shock and haemorrhage as a result of multiple stab incised wounds.
I went to Kurla at about 12.30 numbern.
The accused then came there and asked Pandurang regarding the whereabouts of Ganpat The accused had a knife in his hand.
The police companystable took that knife and told me to accompany him.
Pandurang told the accused that he did number know regarding the whereabouts of Ganpat.
The accused then came there and awakened Ganpat.
The accused was holding a blood stained knife at that time.
Shankar PW then asked the accused as to what the matter was.
Ganpat was employed in a small factory of wooden boxes.
On the basis of the telephonic message a first information report was recorded at the Police Station.
The accused went after Ganpat but on number finding him, the accused went to the room of Radhabai PW and bonged the door.
From there the Head Constable sent telephonic message to Santa Cruz police station.
Pandurang PW 5 and Shankar PW6 , according to the prosecution case, also worked in the wooden box factory.
He also used to visit Bapu and Anusuya there on Sunday and Saturday.
I immediately got out of the room.
As regards the motive, the High Court was of the view that though there was numberdirect evidence, the evidence on record made it apparent that the murder had been companymitted by the accused either due to passion which was repulsed or due to a sense of jealousy.
Accompanied by one Namdev, Pandurang then went to Kaline police post and met there Head Constable Ganu Narayan Parab PW II .
On the morning of March 30 1969, it is stated, Ganpat PW went to the room of Anusuya.
There were three rooms in that Chawl, one of which was occupied by Mrs. Mary Fernandes PW 3 and her other family members, while the above mentioned factory was worked in the third room.
They were at that time present near the factory room.
The Head Constable then took the accused inside the room in front of which he was sitting.
The accused also gave two slaps to Ganpat.
The accused, who had a knife in his hand, also told Radhabai that he had murdered that woman and that he would also murder Radhabai unless she told the accused regarding the whereabouts of Ganpat.
I took tea at the place of Sarsabai and I left Kurla 3.30 P.M. Then I returned to the room of Anusuyabai at 4 p.m. When I entered the room I found that Anusuyabai was lying injured in a pool of blood.
Cuts were found in the intercostal space, pleura, lung, pericardium right ventricle, abdominal wall, stomach, intestines, ascending companyon and kidney.
They then started living in a room in Ulpi Uraj Ghawl at Vakola, Santa Cruz, Bombay.
From there the police party went to the spot where the dead body of the deceased was lying.
About three months before the present occurrence, Bapu ran away with Anusuya to Billimoria.
I also told him that I suspected Ganpat as the assailant of Anusuya.
PW 7 Ganpat 24 , who is a companysin of Radhabai, also stayed with Radhabai.
The said factory was located in a room in Ulpi Uraj Chawl.
I asked him to enquire into the matter.
Shortly thereafter Bapu and Anusuya were married.
Bapu then brought back Anusuya to Hansabais place.
During their visits to the place of Hansabai, the accused and Bapu came in companytact with her daughter Ansuya.
The husband of Anusuya died soon thereafter.
The dead body was there after sent to the mortuary where post mortem examination was performed on the following morning by Dr. Saksena PW 4 at 9.20 a m. Inspector Deshpande also took into possession the clothes which the accused was wearing as they were found to be stained with blood.
In the result the accused was companyvicted and sentenced as above.
Pandurang told the Head Constable that a person hid murdered a woman.
Accompanied by Pandurang and Namdev, the Head Constable went to Ulpi Uraj Chawl He found the accused sitting on a wooden box in front of one room.
At a short distance from Ulpi Uraj Ghawl wherein Anusuya deceased used to live with Bapu, is another Ghawl named Dattu Seth Chawl.
The accused there upon replied that he had murdered one woman He also told Shankar to move aside, otherwise he the accused would kill Shanker also.
At the asking of the Head Constable, the accused placed the knife on the ground.
The door was then opened and the accused asked Radhabai as to where her brother Ganpat was.
According to the prosecution case, the above injuries were caused to Anusuya deceased by the accused.
Prasad to one Sarsabai, who stayed at Kurla.
Later on that day at about 4 p.m. Ganpat PW was sleeping near the entrance door of the factory room in Ulpi Uraj Chawl.
A few days before the present occurrence, the accused took Anusuya along with him for pilgrimage to Kolhapur other places.
The wounds were in the chest, subcoastal border, mid clavicular line, hypochond rium, lumbar region, loin, back and gultcal region.
Ganpat immediately jumped into the factory room and through the rear door ran out and companycealed himself in a nearby hut.
With that knife I came out of the room and I ran in the direction in which Ganpat had run, to follow him.
The said room was taken on rent for them by the accused.
Having seen the knife, I was very much enraged.
In the result the accused was acquitted.
Therefore, I went back to the room of Anusuya and I took the knife which was blood stained, which was lying there.
In appeal the learned Judges of the High Court accepted the evidence regarding extra judicial companyfession.
Kashinath thereupon filed this appeal through jail by special leave.
R. Khanna J. Kashinath 22 was tried in the companyrt of learned Additional Sessions Judge Bombay under Section 302 IPC for causing the death of Anusuya 20 and was acquitted.
