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4. Thereafter, Inspector Iqbal Mohd PW-18A along with SI Tanvir Ashraf PW17 and Constable Manoj went to the house of deceased at N-169, Sunder Nagri where his wife appellant Shama Parveen had met them. A lady constable Kamini PW13 was also called there. The appellant Shama Parveen was interrogated by Inspector PW-18A. Her personal search was conducted by lady Constable Kamini PW13 vide memo Ex. PW13/A. Appellant Shama Parveen had made disclosure statement Ex.PW13/C. She was arrested vide memo Ex.PW13/B. She led them to a room on first floor of her house and pointed out the place of occurrence on the basis of which a pointing out Memo Ex.PW 13/E was prepared. She also removed five sheets of fancy papers which were pasted on the wall of that room and before pasting, the said wall was painted. On removal of sheets by her, blood stains were observed on the wall. Appellant Shama Parveen also produced over 21 similar sheets of paper after taking out the same from an iron trunk. The used as well as unused paper were seized in two different pullandas vide Seizure memo Ex.PW13/E. Appellant Shama Parveen also produced one broken wicket which was lying behind a refrigerator kept in the same room. The same was kept in a polythene bag and then put in a pulanda which was sealed with the seal of IMK. The IO PW18A had found hair struck on the wall which was blood stained. He seized the same by completing necessary formalities. Some portion of concrete from the wall which was blood stained was also seized. There was also some blood on a cot made of iron pipes (folding) in the room which was picked up by him and kept in a pullanda. The same was sealed with the seal of IMK. All the above three sealed pullandas were seized vide memo Ex. PW 13/D. Thereafter, appellant Shama Praveen took them to the roof of her house and had shown one drum containing fresh paint which was also seized after completing necessary formalities in this regard vide seizure memo Ex.PW 13/F. The videographer along with photographer were called at the spot. The entire proceedings were got videographed.

It is contended that there are blood stains on the wall of the house of appellant Shama Parveen and on the iron cot. Blood stained hair of deceased was also seized from the place of occurrence. No explanation was given as to why there were blood stains on the wall of the house. There was no explanation as to why the same were covered with printed papers. It is contended that burden was on the inmate of the house to explain as to how there were blood stains on the wall of the room and as to why the same were covered with wall paper but, appellant Shama Parveen had failed to explain. It is contended that the same is highly incriminating evidence against the appellant-Shama Parveen.

26. Inspector Iqbal Mohd. PW 18A has also deposed that appellant Shama Parveen led them to a room on the first floor of her house and pointed out the place of occurrence vide memo Ex.PW13/E. Appellant Shama Parveen also produced five sheets of fancy paper which were pasted on the wall of that room and same were pasted after the wall was painted. On the removal of sheets by her, some blood stains were seen on the wall. Thereafter, appellant Shama Parveen also handed over 21 similar sheets of unused papers after bringing out the same from an iron trunk and the same were seized in two different pulandas and were sealed with the seal of IMK vide seizure memo Ex.PW 13/E. The appellant also produced one broken cricket wicket from behind a refrigerator kept in the same room. The wicket Ex. P- 6 was seized vide seizure memo Ex.PW13/D. Inspector Iqbal Mohd PW18 deposed having found hair stuck on the wall which was blood stained. He seized the same vide memo Ex.PW13/D after completing necessary formalities. He had also seized concrete from the wall which was blood stained as well as some portion of concrete vide aforesaid memo. Inspector Iqbal Mohd. PW 18A has deposed that he also observed some blood lying on a cot made of iron pipes (folding) which was picked. The same was picked up by him and kept in a pullanda which was also sealed with the seal of IMK vide seizure memo Ex.PW 13/D.

The evidence of police officials as discussed above inspires confidence. There is no serious contradiction in the statement of IO Inspector Iqbal Mohd PW18A and other police officials i.e., SI Tanvir Ashraf PW17, Constable Kamini PW13, Constable Ram Pal PW11. Under these circumstances, no adverse inference can be drawn in the non-joining of public witnesses.

30. From the evidence discussed above, it stands established that blood stains were found on the wall of the room in the house of deceased which were covered with five paper sheets seized vide memo Ex. PW13/E and before covering, the wall was painted with paint seized vide memo Ex. PW13/F. Five sheets of fancy papers Ex. P-5 which were pasted on the wall of the room to hide blood stains, broken wicket Ex.P-6, hair stuck on the wall, sample of concrete from the wall having blood stains which were seized vide seizure memo Ex. PW13/D were sent to CFSL for examination. As per expert‟s report Ex.PW 18/A which is proved on record by Mr.B.C.Purkait, PW-18, Junior Scientific Officer, CFSL, the same gave positive tests for human blood. The CFSL report Ex. PW18/C-1 of blood stained hair found on the wall of the room of Shama Parveen and scalp hair which were handed over to SI Tanvir Ashraf PW17 by Dr.Gaurav Vinod Jain PW2, were found to be of the same origin and also shows presence of blood group `B‟ which was the blood group of deceased.