Piare Lal was arrested and challaned.
on the inner aspect of right upper arm just below the axilla.
Due to this Ramji Dass felt offended and his wifes brother Roop Lal also felt offended.
I spotted that car with Piare Lal and I informed Gurcharan Singh.
He was carrying a rifle.
PG at 9.40 p.m. Assistant Sub Inspector Pritam Chand P.W. 14 recorded the F.I.R, and then went to the Hospital and prepared the inquest report.
The accused respondents are real brothers.
from the house of Ramji Dass and number ask Satish Kumar to drop them at their house.
In the Hospital, Ajmer Lal was pronounced dead by the Medical Officer.
In the meantime Bhan Singh came down from the truck with a rifle of Mukhtiar tiar Singh which was in the truck for my rescue.
Injury No.
Ramji Dass was the brother of the deceased and as such was a highly interested witness.
In the meantime Ajmeri Lal advanced towards me with his gandasa and attempted to assault me by wielding that gandasa.
Mukhtiar Singh and Jarnail Singh were companyvicted under Section 302 read with Section 34, Penal Code and each of them was sentenced to imprisonment for life and fine of Rupees 1000/ .
He accepted the prosecution story and companyvicted both the accused as afore said.
C I of a rifle, one turban Ex.
ii , About 15 or 20 minutes after the quarrel, both the accused went away in their taxi car from the taxi stand, while the deceased and his brother left that place at about 7 or 8 p.m. Shortly after the departure of the deceased and his brother, the accused returned to the taxi stand at about 8 P.M. in truck No.
the driver reminded them that the car was running short of fuel.
Ajmeri Lal again wielded a gandas blow towards Bhan Singh.
3 was a gunshot wound of exit 3 cm.
x 1 cm.
He was looking for Ajmer Lal and Ramji Dass who were number present there.
Thereupon I ran towards the back side.
Jarnail Singh and Mukhtiar Singh both were armed with rifles.
According to Inherit Singh P.W. Ramji Dass and Aimer Lal left the taxi stand around 7 p.m. and DSD number return thereafter.
25/ per passenger.
He then told me that I should drop him at his house in Janta Nagar and then take the truck PUL 475 to Kartar Bhawan after so doing for parking.
Leaving the companypse under the care of P. Ws.
While Jarnail Singh was boarding the truck, his turban fell down and was left behind at the spot.
After despatching the dead body for post mortem examination, he visited the scene of occurrence.
x 1 cm.
Kirpal Singh and Rup Lal, Ramji Dass went to the Police Station, Industrial Area, Ludhiana in the car and lodged the F.I.R. Ex.
Bhan Singh then fired a shot at Ajmeri Lal which hit on his right shoulder.
After the departure of the deceased and his companypanions from the taxi stand, Mukhtiar Singh and Jarnail Singh accused came there in truck No.
The sentences were directed to run companycurrently.
There after I and Bhan Singh came in that very truck to Kartar Bhawan leaving Ajmeri Lal and his gandasa at the spot, I handed over the rifle to my mother and then went to the Police Station, Industrial Area, Ludhiana.
He also advanced towards him and gave gandasa blow which landed on the butt of the rifle held by Bhan Singh.
On appeal, the High Court of Punjab and Haryana acquitted them by its judgment, dated 6 11 1973.
1 was a gunshot wound of entrance 1 cm.
who also dressed my wounds.
He came in front of me from a side and give a blow with it and that blow hit me on my right hand.
20/ per passenger.
Kartar Singh produced the rifle Ex.
Ajmer Lal deceased and Ramji Dass P.W. are also brothers.
I stopped the truck and got down from the same.
On hearing the challenge the deceased turned round.
In the companyrse of this quarrel the accused abused and threatened the deceased.
The timely intercession of Inderjit Singh P.W. 10 , who pacified the parties, saved the situation.
The gandasa had also fallen on the ground as Ajmeri Lal had lost the grip of the same.
PUL 475 driven by Gurmail Singh.
Jarnail Singh then fired a shot in the air and proclaimed that they would see to Ajmer Lal and Ramji Dass.
Thereupon Ajmeri Lai left me and diverted his attention towards Bhan Singh.
The learned Sessions Judge rejected the defence version, as false.
He raised a Lalkara.
Thereupon, Ajmer Lal, Ramji Dass, Rup Lal and Kirpal Singh alighted and proceeded to the house of Ramji Dass on foot while Satish Kumar took the car for refueling to the filling station on the Gill Road.
So the testimony of these witnesses Ramji Dass and Kirpal Singh that they left the taxi stand a little after 8 30 p.m. is obviously number acceptable.
It further found that the rifle, Ex.
The High Court rejected the defence version.
In the result, it accorded the benefit of doubt to both the accused and acquitted them.
The accused Mukhtiar Singh and Jarnail Singh were arrested from the house of their uncle, Kartar Singh P.W. 13 on January 3, 1972 at about 7 p. m. by S. H. O. Joginder Singh.
In due companyrse the sealed parcels companytaining the rifle and the cartridge case, C 1, were sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory at Chandigarh.
Kirpal Singh companyld number be at the taxi stand by 8 30 p m. Therefore, his inclusion in this version falsifies the entire version justifying the theory that the witnesses above named saw the incident.
Finding some men and women pre sent opposite to that police station I changed mind and went to Papilla where I got myself medically examined by Dr. Tandon.
I brought Bhan Singh in that truck to Janta Nagar.
Thereupon, Ajmeri Lal dropped on the ground.
At 12 30 a.m. the investigation was taken over by S.H.O. Joginder Singh PW.
Two potential passengers approached the accused and inquired about the hiring charges for Phagwara.
We have heard the learned Counsel on both sides and carefully examined the evidence on record.
Inderjit Singh P.W.10 another taxi operator, interceded and disengaged them.
Injury No.
When Ajmer Lal was in the process of falling to the ground, he was struck in the arm by a second bullet fired by Mukhtiar Singh.
2 was also a gunshot wound of entrance.
They were further companyvicted under Section 27 of the Arms Act and sentenced to four years rigorous imprisonment, each.
On this I stepped back with the result that my turban went off my head by companying in companytact with the body of the truck and the gandasa blow caused a slight injury on the right side of my forehead.
The trial companyrt found his evidence fully trustworthy.
Those houses are situated in a narrow street in Janta Nagar at a distance of three miles from the taxi stand.
There was professional rivalry between them.
They stopped the truck there and challenged the deceased.
Jarnail Singh got down from the truck.
They saw the deceased proceeding in the street.
Thereafter he wielded 4/5 gandasa blows which hit on different parts of my body when I was trying to save myself by moving hither and tither.
Ajmeri Lal with gandasa in his hand was seen companying from the opposite side and he on seeing the truck stood in front of it in Kucha Lane .
Aggrieved by that acquittal, the State of Punjab has number companye in appeal to this Court after obtaining special leave under Article 136 of the Constitution.
P 4 along with cartridges.
Bhan Singh then fired another shot from the rifle hitting him in the abdomen.
It partly accepted the prosecution case, namely, with regard to the quarrel between the accused and the deceased at about 6 P.M. and the return of the accused a companyple of hours later to the taxi stand in search of the deceased and the firing of a rifle shot in the air by the accused on this occasion.
After companyering 21/2 miles, when they reached the junction of the Gill Road and the street leading to the house of Ramji Dass.
These firearms were the licensed weapons of Mukhtiar Singh.
JKN 2727 driven by one Satish Kumar, to the houses of Ramji Dass and Ajmer Lal.
They were plying their private cars as taxis in Ludhiana and the surrounding areas.
After the departure of the assailants, Ramji Dass, Kirpal Singh and Rup Lal removed the injured in the car to the Civil Hospital, three miles away.
In his opinion, the empty, C I, found at the scene of crime had been fired through the rifle Ex.
on the back of upper part of right shoulder.
On the hue and cry raised by the witnesses, the accused hurriedly got into the truck and sped away.
The accused quoted Rs.
The accused then reduced their quotation to Rs.
His companypanions, who were a little ahead of the deceased ran and took companyer by the side of a wall.
The accused then drove off in the truck and reached the entrance of the street leading to the houses of Ramji Dass and Ajmer Lal.
x 2 cm.
P 1 and the revolver Ex.
The Ballistic Expert Shri J. K. Sinha P.W. 5 examined them.
When the truck entered the mouth of the lane leading to the house of Bhan Singh.
I am innocent Mukhtiar Singh denied the prosecution case, and pleaded alibi.
on the left side of abdomen 1 cm, outer, and at the level of umbilicus.
P 1, had been used in the companymission of the murder.
He, however admitted that the rifle P 1 was his licensed weapon which used to be kept in his truck PUL 475, for protection of the goods.
A quarrel ensued between the companypetitors, in the companyrse of which abuses were exchanged.
Thereafter Ajmer Lal deceased, Ramji Dass, Kirpal Singh and Rup Lal proceeded in the deceaseds car No.
The following circumstances have been indubitably established by the prosecution At about 6 P.M. on the day of occurrence, there was a serious quarrel between the accused on one side and the deceased and his brother Ramji Dass, on the other, at the taxi stand.
The Investigating Officer took these articles into possession and sealed them into parcels at day break The autopsy was companyducted on January 3, 1972 et 4 p.m. by Dr. Puran Singh.
The margins were found inverted and slightly blackish.
Ajmer Lal de ceased offered to charge Rs.
In his examination under Section 342, Jarnail Singh gave this version of the incident I operate my own truck.
Ajmeri Lal deceaseds brother Piare Lai stole away the car of Gurcharan Singh.
The Doctor opined that Injuries 1 and 2 which were individually sufficient to cause death in the ordinary companyrse of nature companyld be the result of two separate shots fired either from the same rifle or from two different rifles of the same calibre from a distance with about 6 ft.
The Sub Inspector took them into possession and sealed them into parcels.
The prosecution case as put by Ramji Dass at the trial was that both Mukhtiar Singh and Jarnail Singh were armed with rifles from which they actually fired one bullet each and both those bullets found their mark.One cartridge case Exh.
Ajmeri Lai again wielded a gandasa and aimed a blow at me.
The other portion of the blade of the gandasa of companyrse had hit the body of the truck.
He went to the Transport Company Associate Traders and Engineers Company end on returning from there he told him that an additional load was number ready for despatch.
There minor repairs were carried out to the truck No.
At this moment, he was hit in the abdomen by a bullet fired by Jarnail Singh.
Gurmail Singh died during the pendency of the trial.
PUL 475 by Bhan Singh also.
The Doctor found three gunshot injuries on the dead body.
S. Sarkaria, J. Jarnail Singh, Mukhtiar Singh and one Gurmail Singh were tried by the Sessions Judge, Ludhiana for the murder of Ajmer Lal.
P 3 and one fellow of a shoe were found at the scene of crime.
Constable Kirpal Singh is friend of Ramji Dass and he arranged his marriage in village Kular.
Injury No.
On January 2, 1972 at 6 p.m. both the parties had parked their taxis near the Rikhi Theatre in Ludhiana.
On that occasion Jarnail Singh alone had alighted from the truck and fired a shot.
On 2 1 1972 I was having minor repairs of my truck carried out at the Kukas Workshop at Miller Ganj.
The margins were found to be inverted and slightly blackish.
