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1972 Law Weekly (Criminal) 34 [Vadivel Padayachi In re.] 1974 Criminal Law Journal 381 [In re. Ganesan] 1996 (2) Madras Weekly Notes (Criminal) 322 [Koolu alias Kottaiya Pilla v. State] 1997 (1) Madras Weekly Notes (Criminal) 320 [Sathiyanathan v. State]

6. Having regard to the submissions made by the learned senior counsel for the appellant and the submissions made by the learned Additional Public Prosecutor, we went through the entire evidence on record. Admittedly, there are no eye witnesses to the crime. It is also not in dispute that the accused was found with bleeding injuries in the same very room where the dead body of Sajitha Parveen was found. Ex. P.8 is the rough sketch of the crime scene. There is a Departmental Store called "Chennai Foods" in the II Avenue, XII Main Road, Anna Nagar. The Second Avenue runs east-west. South of that road is a building. The sketch shows that in the ground floor, the sales area of "Chennai Foods" is located. Behind the Departmental Store, in the ground floor itself, there is a space where various items are stored. The building in the occupation of P.W. 3 for running the Departmental Store consists of a ground floor and a first floor. We could see from the plan, as one enters the Departmental Store, there is a way to go up to the first floor on the west. On reaching the first floor, we find a room where the Managing Director is accommodated; in the next adjoining room, there is a computer as well as the cash chest and the last room is the Store Room. The Managing Director's room and the computer room have entrance from the northern wall and the eastern wall respectively, while the store room has its entrance from the southern wall. P.W. 3 primarily and P.Ws.1 and 2 had explained the topography of the building. When we read the evidence of these witnesses in the context of the details available in the plan, it is clear to our mind that there is only one way to go to the first floor of the premises, where in the ground floor, "Chennai Foods" is located. We also find that there is a separate way to go to Tata Consultancy Services, who appear to be having their office on the west of the first floor of the building in the occupation of P.W. 3.