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Punjab-Haryana High Court<\/div>\n
Sukhdev Singh Alias Sukha vs The State Of Punjab on 4 July, 2008<\/div>\n
Criminal Appeal No. 522-DB of 1999                           -1-\n\n                                        ****\n\n\nIN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA\n               AT CHANDIGARH\n\n                            Criminal Appeal No. 522-DB of 1999\n                            Date of decision : 4.7.2008\n\nSukhdev Singh alias Sukha                        .....Appellant\n\n                            Versus\n\nThe State of Punjab                              ...Respondent\n\n                                 ****\n\nCORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ADARSH KUMAR GOEL\n       HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S. D. ANAND\n\nPresent: Mr. Ajay Kaushik, Advocate as Amicus Curiae\n\n          Mr. Rajesh Bhardwaj, Deputy Advocate General, Haryana\n\nS. D. ANAND, J.\n<\/pre>\n
             The appellant was convicted by then learned Additional<\/p>\n
Sessions Judge, Mansa ( hereinafter referred to as the Trial Judge) for an<\/p>\n
offence under Section 302 IPC and sentenced to undergo imprisonment for<\/p>\n
life and to pay a fine of Rs.1000\/-. In default of payment of fine, the<\/p>\n
appellant was directed to further undergo imprisonment for a period of two<\/p>\n
months.\n<\/p>\n
2.           Gian Kaur deceased was joint in residence with her five sons<\/p>\n
including PW-5 Hargobind Singh. The Rasta in front of their house leads to<\/p>\n
Gurudwara Titarsar. There is a culvert enroute and towards the West of<\/p>\n
culvert, there is a pond.\n<\/p>\n
3.           On 5.8.1995, at about 7.00 P.M. Appellant Sukhdev Singh and<\/p>\n
the acquitted associate Tar Singh wanted to demolish the culvert. A quarrel<\/p>\n
between them on the one hand and Gian Kaur and her son Sukhdev on the
\n Criminal Appeal No. 522-DB of 1999                             -2-<\/span><\/p>\n
                                      ****<\/p>\n
other hand, ensued. Gian Kaur had the apprehension that demolition of<\/p>\n
culvert would lead to the flooding of her house. The obstruction offered by<\/p>\n
Gian Kaur enraged appellant Sukhdev Singh who felled down her on the<\/p>\n
ground by giving a Kahi blow on the left side of her forehead. She was<\/p>\n
initially taken to the Civil Hospital, Sardulgarh. Therefrom she was referred<\/p>\n
to Civil Hospital, Mansa from where then she was referred to           P.G.I.,<\/p>\n
Chandigarh, where she died.\n<\/p>\n
4.          PW-5 Hargobind and PW-6 Gulab Singh, yet another son of<\/p>\n
deceased Gian Kaur, had witnessed the impugned occurrence along with<\/p>\n
their brother PW-8 Darshan Singh. The case was investigated by PW-10<\/p>\n
Inspector Balbir Singh and PW-11 ASI Paramjit Singh. PW-4 Dr. Dalbir<\/p>\n
Singh, Associate Professor, Forensic Medicine, PGI, Chandigarh had<\/p>\n
conducted the post-mortem examination on the dead body of Gian Kaur and<\/p>\n
found the following injuries:-\n<\/p>\n
            “1.    10.5 X 0.10 cms partially healed wound with unhealthy<\/p>\n
                   granulation tissues present over the left frontal aspect of<\/p>\n
                   the scalp, starting from the lateral end of left eye brow<\/p>\n
                   going upwards     and medially upto 6 cms above the<\/p>\n
                   medial end of left eye brow. Proximal 2 cm of the wound<\/p>\n
                   was gaping for .75 cms and under lying bone was<\/p>\n
                   exposed. Greenish yellowish pus was present over it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
            2.     Left eye ball was missing from the orbit and inner<\/p>\n
                   surfaces of orbit were having unhealthy granulation<\/p>\n
                   tissues.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
5.          He opined that the cause of death “Oedema of brain due to
\n Criminal Appeal No. 522-DB of 1999                             -3-<\/span><\/p>\n
                                      ****<\/p>\n
laceration of brain, subdural hamatoma extradural haematoma and fracture<\/p>\n
of skull following head injuries which were antemortem in nature.”<\/p>\n
6.           Learned Trial Judge decreed conviction, after disbelieving the<\/p>\n
defence plea of innocence.\n<\/p>\n
7.           Learned counsel appearing for the appellant as Amicus Curiae<\/p>\n
argues that there is want of reliable evidence on the file to prove that there<\/p>\n
was any motive for the appellant to have murdered Gian Kaur. He also has<\/p>\n
a grievance that the witnesses examined to prove the charge are all sons of<\/p>\n
the deceased and their testimony is not corroborated by any independent<\/p>\n
evidence. The plea, raised by learned Amicus Curiae in the alternative is<\/p>\n
that conviction may be altered to an offence under Section 304 IPC in view<\/p>\n
of the fact that the appellant is alleged to have given a single blow which<\/p>\n
was not repeated.\n<\/p>\n
8.           We do not find any force in pleas advocated on behalf of the<\/p>\n
appellant.\n<\/p>\n
9.           There is categorical and almost unrebutted evidence      that the<\/p>\n
appellant Sukhdev Singh did not like the objection taken by Gian Kaur to<\/p>\n
the demolition of the culvert by the former. As already noticed, Gian Kaur<\/p>\n
had the apprehension that the demolition of the culvert would lead to the<\/p>\n
flooding of her house. The present is, thus, a clear case in which Gian<\/p>\n
Kaur earned the ire of appellant Sukhdev Singh, who hit her forehead with a<\/p>\n
Kahi.\n<\/p>\n
10.          Though cases are conceivable in which the prosecution may not<\/p>\n
be able to adduce evidence to prove the motive on the part of the accused to<\/p>\n
commit the relevant crime but the present is surely not a case of that
\n Criminal Appeal No. 522-DB of 1999                             -4-<\/span><\/p>\n
                                      ****<\/p>\n
category in view of the fact that there is clinching evidence to indicate that<\/p>\n
Sukhdev Singh felt irritated by the obstruction caused by Gian Kaur to<\/p>\n
demolition of the culvert by the former and that is precisely what actuated<\/p>\n
him to hit her forehead with a Kahi.          It cannot, by any stretch of<\/p>\n
interpretation, be said that the prosecution has not been able to prove the<\/p>\n
motive on the part of the appellant to commit the crime for which he stands<\/p>\n
convicted.\n<\/p>\n
11.          We are unable to accept the proposition that the testimony of<\/p>\n
relation witnesses deserves to be ruled out altogether just because they<\/p>\n
happen to be relations of the deceased.        Concededly     though, if the<\/p>\n
testimony of relation witnesses is not found to be fully reliable, the Court<\/p>\n
would insist upon its corroboration by independent evidence.              The<\/p>\n
testimony of relation witnesses may be discarded only if it is found that<\/p>\n
relations have proved themselves to be unreliable or they have endeavoured<\/p>\n
introduction of a false scenario to fix an accused. In the present case, it is<\/p>\n
not even the allegation that PW 5 Hargobind and PW-6 Gulab Singh had<\/p>\n
any previous score to settle with the appellant or that they have any other<\/p>\n
reason on account whereof they would have been inclined to falsely<\/p>\n
implicate the appellant. We do not, thus, approve of the view advocated by<\/p>\n
the learned Amicus Curiae in the context.\n<\/p>\n
12.          There is no law decreeing that a single blow which does not<\/p>\n
come to be repeated must invite the applicability of Section 304 IPC. As<\/p>\n
held by the Apex     Court in Murugan & others Vs. State AIR 2008<\/p>\n
Supreme Court 627 “the infliction of a single injury by itself is not a<\/p>\n
relevant factor to hold that appellant had no intention to commit the murder
\n Criminal Appeal No. 522-DB of 1999                              -5-<\/span><\/p>\n
                                      ****<\/p>\n
of the deceased.” In the present case, the appellant gave a blow on forehead<\/p>\n
of the deceased which is a vital part of the body and the blow had been<\/p>\n
given by Kahi which is a sharp edged weapon. In that view of things, it<\/p>\n
cannot be said with any justification, that the appellant had no intention to<\/p>\n
commit the murder of the deceased.\n<\/p>\n
13.         It is pertinent to notice here that, in the course of statement Ex.<\/p>\n
PX, the deceased had attributed a categorical inculpatory role to appellant<\/p>\n
Sukhdev Singh.     In the course of that statement, she had clearly indicated<\/p>\n
that the demolition of culvert would have flooded her house. She also<\/p>\n
stated, in the course thereof, that she pleaded with the appellant (and the<\/p>\n
acquitted associate of his) to desist from proceeding with the demolition of<\/p>\n
the culvert but they did not listen to her. Her statement in respect of seat of<\/p>\n
injury( and also the weapon with which it was inflcited) is supported by the<\/p>\n
testimony of PW-4 Dr. Dalbir Singh. Therefore, it cannot be denied that<\/p>\n
the statement aforesaid had been recorded by the police official, we do not<\/p>\n
find any fault with it. Initially, the Police Officer afore-mentioned filed an<\/p>\n
application (Ex. PH) before S.M.O., Civil Hospital, Sardulgarh to find out if<\/p>\n
the injured was fit to make a statement. The Medical Officer issued a<\/p>\n
certification (Ex. PH\/1) on 5.8.1995 at 10.15 P.M., that the injured was not<\/p>\n
fit to make a statement on account of head injury. Thereafter that Police<\/p>\n
Officer again filed an application (Ex. PJ) before the S.M.O., Civil Hospital,<\/p>\n
Sardulgarh to give the opinion in the matter of fitness or otherwise of the<\/p>\n
injured to make a statement.      Again, the Medical Officer certified on<\/p>\n
6.8.1995 at 10.00 A.M. that the patient was unfit to make a statement. It<\/p>\n
was ultimately when the injured was certified to be fit to make a statement
\n Criminal Appeal No. 522-DB of 1999                              -6-<\/span><\/p>\n
                                      ****<\/p>\n
that the police officer afore-mentioned recorded her statement Ex. PX. As<\/p>\n
there was no immediate danger to death, there was ostensible reason for him<\/p>\n
not to insist upon recording of her statement by a Magistrate. Thus, the<\/p>\n
contents of Ex. PX add to the ocular evidence to nail the appellant.<\/p>\n
14.          It also cannot be lost sight of that it was the appellant Sukhdev<\/p>\n
Singh who, in pursuance of a disclosure statement, led to the recovery of a<\/p>\n
Kahi.    It also adds to the woes of the appellant in the context of<\/p>\n
accountability for having murdered Mst. Gian Kaur.<\/p>\n
15.          The testimony of DW-1 Babu Singh and DW-2 Nirmal Singh<\/p>\n
does not at all assist the defence plea of innocence. DW-1 Babu Singh<\/p>\n
claimed to have been told by Gian Kaur that she had not been able to<\/p>\n
identify the appellant. She allegedly furnished the information to Babu<\/p>\n
Singh when the latter visited her in the hospital.       This witness was a<\/p>\n
member panchayat at that point of time. In his own showing, the Panchayat<\/p>\n
did not pass any resolution with regard to the innocence of the appellant.<\/p>\n
Neither this witness nor the Panchayat moved any application to the higher<\/p>\n
authorities against the false implication of the appellant in spite of the fact<\/p>\n
that he averred that he belongs to the faction of the appellant. If there was<\/p>\n
even an iota of truth in the statement of DW-1 Babu Singh, there is no<\/p>\n
reason why he would not have brought this fact to the notice of the higher<\/p>\n
police authorities.\n<\/p>\n
16.          DW-2 Nirmal Singh also claimed to have visited at Civil<\/p>\n
Hospital, Sardulgarh, Civil Hospital, Mansa, and also PGI, Chandigarh. His<\/p>\n
statement to the effect that Gian Kaur remained unconscious throughout the<\/p>\n
time she remained in the hospitals and that she was not fit to make a
\n Criminal Appeal No. 522-DB of 1999                            -7-<\/span><\/p>\n
                                     ****<\/p>\n
statement is falsified by the record as per which Inspector Gurdip Singh<\/p>\n
recorded her statement on 11.8.1995 only after she had been declared fit to<\/p>\n
make a statement. In the context, we may refer to Ex.PB\/1 which is a<\/p>\n
certification to the effect that she was fit to make a statement. That<\/p>\n
certification was testified to at the trial by PW-3 Dr. R.K. Garg, Emergency<\/p>\n
Medical Officer, Civil Hospital, Mansa.\n<\/p>\n
17.         In the light of the fore-going discussion, we hold that there is<\/p>\n
no substance in the appeal.\n<\/p>\n
18.         Dismissed.<\/p>\n
\n\n\n                                             ( S. D. ANAND )\n                                                 JUDGE\n\n\n\n\nJuly 04, 2008                         (ADARSH KUMAR GOEL)\nPka                                          JUDGE\n <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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