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36. We have very carefully gone through the medical evidence that was adduced in this case both by the prosecution and also the accused. P.Ws.11 and 12 are the witnesses examined by the prosecution in proof of the medical treatment given to the accused after commission of the offence. P.W.11 is Dr. K.V.Ramireddy, an Associate Professor in Andhra Medical College, Visakhapatnam. He only deposed that Dr. K.Surekha, Gynecologist, called him and informed about admission of the accused in the Hospital and he advised her to give haloperidol 10 mg, which is a sedative injection, to the patient and accordingly she gave the said sedative injection to him. In the cross-examination, he stated that the said sedative injection was given to the accused as he was violent. So, there is nothing to indicate in the evidence of P.W.11 that the accused was actually suffering from any mental ill-health or that he is of unsound mind at that time. Mere giving a sedative injection as he was looking violent by itself cannot be sufficient evidence to hold that he was actually suffering from any such mental ill-health or unsound mind at the time of commission of the offence.