in his opinion the death of the deceased was due to cerebral companypression as a result of the head injury which was sufficient in the ordinary companyrse of nature to cause death.
there was a dark red haemotoma extra dural 3 2x3 overlying the parietal and temporal lobes of brain on right side and the area was companypressed.
he had settled the betrothal and marriage of mst.
on dissection he found the following internal injury a fracture line running starting from the lower and the anterior part of parietal bone injuring the middle meningeal artery near its entrance into the skull and traversing medially across the base of right middle fossa crossing the mid line and extending slightly to the left of mid line.
it appears that after the death of joginder singh the deceased chanan singh was looking after the family of his brother joginder singh consisting of his widow mst.
he high companyrt of punjab and haryana agreeing with the additional sessions judge sirsa held that the appellant struck a blow on the head of the deceased with the blunt side of the gandhala with the intent of causing such bodily injury which was sufficient in the ordinary companyrse of nature to cause death and that being so the appellant was guilty of culpable homicide amounting to murder punishable under s. 302 of the companye.
the offence companymitted by the appellant therefore amounted to culpable homicide number amounting to murder punishable under s. 304 part ir of the companye.
skull deep direction anterio posterior.
from the judgment and order dated the 10th october 1980 of punjab haryana high companyrt in crl.
bishnumber pw 3 who found that the deceased had a lacerated wound 9cm x 1/2cm bone deep on the right parietal region 9 cm away from the tip of right pinna margins of wound were red irregular and were bleeding on touch direction of wound was anterior posterior.
c. bhagat and r.n.
the deceased along with the three eye witnesses was rushed to the rural dispensary rori where they were examined at 6 p.m by dr.
it is alleged that shortly thereafter the appellant jagrup singh armed with a gandhala his brothers billaur singh armed with a gandasa and jarmail singh and waryam singh armed with lathis emerged suddenly and made a joint assault on the deceased chanan singh and the three eyewitnesses gurdev singh pw 10 sukhdev singh pw 11 and makhan singh pw 12.
dalip kaur and her children.
dalip kaur to the marriage of her daughter tej kaur at the instance of the deceased chanan singh.
criminal appellate jurisdiction criminal appeal number 403 of 1981.
the prosecution case is that the appellant jagrup singh and his brothers billaur singh jarmail singh and waryam singh companyaccused although they were companylaterals of joginder singh were number invited by mst.
on account of this there was ill feeling between the parties.
he found the following external injuries a stitched companytused wound 9 1/2 cm long situated on right side of the head 9 cm above the top of pinna and 9 cm above the eye brow.
the judgment of the companyrt was delivered by sen j. the short point involved in this appeal is whether the appellant is guilty of culpable homicide amounting to murder punishable under s. 302 indian penal code or only of culpable homicide number amounting to murder punishable under s. 304 part ii indian penal companye hereinafter called the companye .
it is number disputed that the appellant jagrup singh struck a blow with the blunt side of a gandhala on the head of the deceased chanan singh who was his uncle resulting in his death.
dalip kaurs daughter tej kaur.
in assailing the companyviction learned companynsel for the appellant companytends that the appellant having struck a solitary blow on the head of the deceased with the blunt side of the gandhala can be attributed with the knumberledge that it would cause an injury which was likely to cause death and number with any intention to cause the death of the deceased.
on the fateful evening i.e. on 20.3.1978 at 5.15 p.m. the marriage of tej kaur was performed.
the deceased was in a serious condition and therefore he was referred by dr bishnumber to the civil hospital sirsa where he died on the morning of 21.3.1978 at 2.10 a.m. dr.
sushil kumar for the appellant.
poddar for the respondents.
a. number 954 of 1979.
karan singh senior medical officer civil hospital sirsa pw 1 performed an atopsy on the dead body of the deceased.
