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8. Contusion around the proxymal 1 p. joint on Rt. middle finger.
9. Abrasion of 1 cm. x 1 cm. on back of right chest.
10. Abrasion 3 in number of 1 cm. x 1 cm. on back of saercum.
11. Penis circumcises."

10. These injuries are in the nature of abrasions and contusions. If the statement of the respondents is to be accepted that the deceased was beaten up by the public while he was caught red-handed at the time of committing theft, it is astonishing as to why the fourth respondent failed to send the deceased Basheer Ahmed for treatment when as many as 11 external injuries were found on his body. The evidence of the Civil Assistant Surgeon P.W.17 recorded during the course of Magisterial Enquiry is available at page 83 in the Magisterial Enquiry Report produced before this Court which reads as under: