The injury on the right side of the neck was deep seated, cutting the muscles and blood vessels of the neck.
According to PW 10 the accused was sent with a requisition to the hospital through a police companystable as he sustained minor injuries.
She also identified clothes on the body of the deceased.
The respondent was charged of companymitting murder of his companypanion by name Ananthu by inflicting injuries with a chopper on the afternoon of 28.6.1988 at a room in Kucheta lodge in Mysore.
The receipt which is in a printed form in English was filled up by the deceased as PW 2 did number know English.
and it was treated as companyplaint.
She further stated that Ranga Rajus elder brothers son is the accused.
At that time PW2 who was a friend of the proprietor of the lodge and who used to stay in the lodge during his visits to Mysore to attend to his companytract work was at the companynter of the hotel.
He seized various articles in the room including blood stained bed sheets and pillow companyers, bushshirt of the deceased, blood stained chopper etc.
Entries were made in the lodge register and a receipt P1 was passed on to the accused for the cash received.
That statement signed by Manjunath is Ex.
She also stated in somewhat vague terms that due to land dispute, there was ill will between my husband and accused.
The accused and the deceased checked in at Kucheta lodge in Mysore at about 1.30 P.M. on 28.6.1988.
According to the prosecution, the accused and the deceased who stayed in the house of PW 4 on the day prior to the day of occurrence came together to Mysore on the next day i.e. 28.6.1988.
Manjunath reported to PW 2 that murder had taken place and that he may telephone to the owner of the lodge.
PW 1, who is the wife of the deceased, stated that one Ranga Raju who is her husbands paternal aunts son is the owner of the land adjacent to their land and her husband and Ranga Raju were often quarrelling in companynection with the land dispute.
He found the accused sitting on the company.
P 11 to the Magistrate and superior officers.
PW 12 returned to the police station at about 5 M. and registered the crime under Section 302 IPC and submitted FIR Ex.
Then, the police Sub inspector PW 12 accompanied by police personnel reached the lodge.
He entered room No.7 in second floor by opening the bolt.
He arrested the accused who gave his name as Ramdas and he sent the accused to the police station.
Then, he sent the room boy Manjunath along with the accused to the room to see what had happened.
She identified the handwriting of her husband on Ex.
The inquest report is Ex.
At about 4.15 P.M. when PW 2 was sitting at the companynter along with the room boy Manjunath, the accused came and told him that he had killed Ananthu and he should telephone to the police.
PW 3 then companytacted the police and informed them that a murder had taken place in room No.
PW 12 recorded the statement of room boy Manjunath at the lodge.
7 without naming the victim or the assailant.
PW 3 came to the lodge immediately and got a feed back of the event from PW 2.
P.1 cash receipt filled up by the deceased was issued by PW 2 who was incharge of the companynter at that time.
There were injuries on the neck and the face and a blood stained chopper was found on the table.
It transpires from the evidence that the name written in the hotel register and the receipt was H.S. Ramesh.
Then, he companytacted the proprietors father by name Jugga Raju PW 3 over telephone and informed him that some Galata untoward incident had taken place in the lodge and requested him to companye down to the lodge.
P1 which was issued in the alleged name of H.S. Ramesh.
During inquest he examined PWs 2 and 3.
After the accused returned from the hospital PW 10 seized his clothes M.O. 13 to 15 in the presence of Panch witness PW 7 after providing alternative clothing to him.
The seized articles were sent to the Forensic Laboratory, Bangalore.
He sent the dead body for post mortem examination.
A dead body was lying by the side of the company in a pool of blood.
The chemical analysis Serology reports P 9 and P 8 companyfirmed the presence of human blood stains on various articles including M.O. 6 and clothes.
Then, PW 10 who was working as Circle Inspector of police took over further investigation.
Then, in the presence of the Panchas, he held inquest over the dead body.
He proceeded to the place of occurrence and drew up spot Mahajar in the presence of Panchas PW 5 and another.
Moreover, she stated that the police showed her the hotel register in which the name H.S. Ramesh was found and that name was also written with the hand of her husband.
Manjunath came back leaving the accused in room and closing it from outside.
At that time he was wearing only a pant and his body was stained with blood.
The accused came to the house of PW 4 to meet the deceased Ananthu who was related to him.
According to PW 2, the manager by name Raju while leaving for food requested him to be at the companynter.
