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PW-15 Dr.Vithal Vihurkar had conducted the postmortem of the dead body of all the three victims on 4.11.1997 between 3.00 to 6.30 p.m. and had signed postmortem notes at Exh.44 (deceased Anant Kalal), Exh.55 (Ravindra Savant) and at Exh.
46 (Rajendraprasad Dubey). PW-3 Dattatray Thopte, PW-11 Dattatray Dal and PW-19 Bapu Katakdaund, P.W.20 Arun Wable were the police officers.
6. PW-18 Vilas Chitale was the Special Executive Officer who had held the T.I. parade on 2.5.1998 in the premises of Arthur Road Jail and at the instance of the Malad Police Station, and PW-17 Navinchandra Vyas was also the Special Executive Officer who had conducted two different T.I. Parades in the Arthur Road Jail premises at the instance of Appeals595.02+3 Malad Police Station. The first T.I. parade was held on 18.12.1997 and the second T.I. parade was held on 9.10.1998. In the T.I. parade held on 18.12.1997, 9 suspects were put in the parade in three different groups (Exhs.52 and 53 respectively). As per PW-18 Vilas Chitale in the T.I. parade held on 2.5.1998, accused No.13 Suresh Shinde was identified by PW-1 Vishwanathan Pille (memorandum Exh.
He watched the entire incident from his window and he could see the same in the light posted at the window. It was Diwali time and, therefore, the building premises were illuminated.
His house balcony light was off. Within a short time the police reached the spot. One of the police officers used his telephone to contact the Malad Police Station at about 2.30 a.m. and the mobile police van arrived at the spot. The police visited Flat No.303/304 of the Jain family who had gone out of station. On the next day he had left for his native place in Kerala as per his scheduled visit and returned on 23.11.1997 Appeals595.02+3 i.e. after 19 days. He went to the Malad Police Station only after his return from Kerala and his statement was recorded.
He also stated that he regained courage after taking the Darshan of Lord Ayyappa. He was frightened on the fateful night when he could not gather courage to approach the Malad Police Station before he left for Kerala. It was only after he sought the blessings of Lord Ayyappa that he gained courage and went to the Malad Police Station where his statement was recorded. He claimed that in the T.I. parade held on 18.12.1997 he had identified in all six accused (2 from each group, one accused in the T.I. parade held on 2.5.1998 and two accused in the T.I. parade held on 19.10.1998). It is seen that he identified nine accused.
PW 4 in her depositions before the trial court stated that she visited the Malad Police Station after one week from 5/11/1997, so as to identify some of the articles stolen from her house. She further stated that she repeatedly visited the Malad Police Station on 2-3 occasions and she had identified some items like payal, foot rings and coins etc. as the items stolen from her house, in addition to three silver glasses. The prosecution failed to bring on record through the evidence of Appeals595.02+3 this witness, whether she identified any of the articles listed in the recovery panchanama at Exh. 31-B and she merely stated that she had identified three glasses at Malad Police Station as her stolen property. If we examine the list of the articles in Exh.31-B, there were two silver glasses with floral designs on one side and star like design all over. PW 4 has not stated that she identified these glasses with such specifications.