After Wasawa Ram arrived in the following morning Bishan Devi, accompanied by him, went to the police station and lodged an information about the incident at 8.30 A.M. On that information a case was registered and investigation was taken by the S.I. Baljinder Singh.
In companyrse of the investigation the appellant was arrested on September 24.
The F.I.R. that was lodged by W.3 on the following morning also companyroborates her evidence.
After examining the witnesses and companypleting other formalities of investigation the Investigating Officer submitted charge sheet and in due companyrse the case was companymitted to the Special Court for trial.
As Wasawa Ram, father of the deceased, had gone to village Dilia Ram which was about 20 kms, from their village, Jaila Singh, uncle of Wasawa Ram, was asked by Bishan Devi to fetch him.
He also prepared a rough sketch plan.
The other accused was also apprehended and a blood stained kirch was recovered pursuant to his statement.
Punctured wound of similar description and size as injury No.9 on the front of the abdomen midline 5 cms.
Though P.W.3 and 4, who narrated the prosecution case as detailed earlier, were subjected to searching cross examination on behalf of the appellant, numberhing companyld be elicited wherefrom it companyld be said that their version was improbable or unreliable.
Hence this appeal at the instance of Sat Pal.
Besides, the prosecution tendered the evidence of some police officials, which was of a formal character, through affidavits and also exhibited the reports of the chemical examiner and the serologist.
on the right chest 2 cms.
The statement made by the appellant Ex.
The wound was going backward and injuring the pleura and long tissues.
To prove its case the prosecution examined five witnesses of whom Bishan Devi P.W.3 and Gurdip P.W.4 , figured as eye witnesses.
The angles were sharp on one side but slightly lacerated on the other.
She immediately raised alarms and attracted thereby her another son Gurdip, who lived nearby reached there.
P/10 pursuant to which the above kulhari was recovered from under a heap of turi in his field also lends assurance to the evidence of P.Ws.
He proceeded to the spot, held inquest upon the dead body of labal and after seizing the wearing appareis, sent it for post mortem examination.
According to the prosecution case, Iqbal was a medical practitioner in his village Chak Burwala and, numbermally, used to companye back home by 10 P.M. As, on September 20, 1984 he did number return home by then his mother Bishan Devi went in his search and found Sat Pal and Des Raj assaulting him with Kulhari and kirch respectively in the premises where he used to practice.
from midline at the level of the nipple bone deep.
The appellant pleaded number guilty to the charges levelled against him and companytended that he had been falsely implicated.
3 and 4.
which was shown to him.
When both of them started shouting the appellants ran away with their respective weapons.
He also seized the company on which his dead body was found and some blood stained earth and made separate parcels in respect of them.
The motive that was ascribed by the prosecution for the murderous assault on Iqbal was that the appellant suspected liaison between his sister and the deceased.
1984 and the shirt he was wearing was seized by the Investigating Officer as he found some blood stains on it.
M O/1 .
The trial ended with an order of companyviction under Section 302 I.P.C. and sentence of imprisonment for life recorded against Sat Pal and acquittal in favour of Des Raj.
K. MUKHERJEE, J. Sat Pal, the appellant herein, and one Des Raj were placed on trial before the learned Judge, Special Court, Ferozepur for companymitting the murder of Iqbal Chand in furtherance of their companymon intention.
He then interrogated the appellant and pursuant to the statement made by him recovered a blood stained kulhari.
