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In his cross examination he reiterated his version in his chief and denied all suggestion of Marpeet and stated that his brother used to take alcohol some time and his mental state has always been good after taking alcohol.

P.W.3 Amit Kumar Verma , brother of the appellant and informant stated in his examination in chief that he was living in the same colony. At about 6.30 A.M. On 8.6.2009, he came to know that an incident had occurred in the house of his brother. He reached the spot and saw his brother Ravindra Kumar Verma sitting outside the house in an injured condition and there was blood in his hand. However, this witness has changed his version in examination-in chief and stated in the very next sentence that the appellant was lying inside the room. Apart from Ravindra Kumar Verma, Aanjali, Priya, Priti and Devraj the children of the appellant were lying in a pool of blood and were dead. In another room his sister-in-law Durgawati and nine months old Yuvraj ( son of Ravindra Kumar Verma) were lying in a pool of blood.

In so far as the statement of P.W.3 is concerned, he was the informant and in his examination in chief he stated that he was living in the same colony in a separate house near the house of Ravindra Kumar Verma.On the date of incident at about 6.30 A.M. he came to know about the untoward incident that occurred in the house of his elder brother Ravindra Kumar Verma. When he reached there he found that Ravindra Kumar Verma was sitting outside the house in an injured condition and there was blood on his hands. After making the said statement this witness has changed his version and stated that Ravindra Kumar Verma was lying inside the room in an unconscious state. When this witness asked Ravindra Kumar Verma as to what had happened in the house, Ravindra Kumar Verma did not give any reply. In the meantime his father P.W.1 and other brothers P.W.2 and P.W.4 also reached the spot. The informant along with the other brother got Ravindra Kumar Verma and his wife admitted in the hospital in an unconscious state. Ravindra Kumar Verma was admitted in M.M.G.hospital Ghaziabad and P.W.5 wife of the Ravindra Kumar Verma was referred to the G.T.B. hospital Sahadara. Thereafter the informant and the other brother went to the police station and informed the police. The police reached the spot along with them and after making an inspection of the place of occurrence came back to the police station. Thereafter police told the informant to lodge First Information Report and he wrote 'Taharir' at the dictation of the police. This witness denied the suggestion that Ravindra Kumar Verma had murdered his children and injured his wife. He also denied the suggestion that the financial condition of Ravindra Kumar Verma was not good. Rather in his cross examination he deposed that the perpetrator of the crime was some unknown person/miscreant.

From the deposition of these witnesses we find that all the witnesses had deposed that Ravindra Kumar Verma was in the habit of taking alcohol and was in the house at the time of incident. In so far as P.W.1 is concerned he categorically stated in his examination in chief that Ravindra Kumar Verma was lying in the house in a state of intoxication and was habitual of taking alcohol and Bhang. He was also facing financial crises. The informant (P.W.3) changed his version in the examination in chief. In the first sentence of his examination in chief he started narrating about what he had witnessed in the morning at about 6.30 A.M. when he reached the place of occurrence. He deposed that Ravindra Kumar Verma was sitting outside the house in an injured condition with blood on his hands. The statement of the informant fully corroborates the version in the 'Taharir' which was given by him in his own handwriting. Thus suggestion given by the witness later on in his examination in chief and cross examination that the police had dictated the First information report and he had simply copied what was dictated to him is unbelievable. Even otherwise, the informant is the real brother of Ravindra Kumar Verma. There is nothing on record to suggest that there was any pressure upon him to give the report in writing to the police.