Rishi Pal & Co. vs State Of H.P. And Ors. on 29 April, 1998
In support of the submission that the absence of
the blood trail makes the testimony of Mumtaz Ahmad PW-2,
susceptible, learned counsel placed reliance upon the decision
of this court reported as Rishi Pal v State 1994 (1) C.C. Cases
509 (HC); (ii) Mumtaz Ahmad PW-2, had deposed that he, along
with Iftiquar Ahmad PW-8, the father of the deceased, had
removed the deceased to the hospital. Learned counsel urged
that this testimony is not supported by the MLC Ex.PW-5/B of the
deceased wherein there is no mention of the names of Mumtaz
Ahmad or Iftiquar Ahmad as the persons who had brought the
deceased to the hospital; (iii) had Mumtaz Ahmad PW-2, been an
eye-witness to the incident as claimed by him, the police officers
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necessarily would have involved him in the investigation
conducted at the spot as he would have provided them with the
necessary details of the incident whereas the fact that Mumtaz
Ahmad had not deposed a word about the investigation
conducted at the spot by the police officers evidences that he
had not participated in the investigation conducted at the spot
which, according to the learned counsel raises serious doubts on
his claim of being an eye-witness to the incident; (iv) there is a
serious contradiction in the evidence of Mumtaz Ahmad PW-2,
regarding the manner in which the deceased was held by the
appellant Sayeed Ahmad at the time of the incident; inasmuch
as, learned counsel urged that Mumtaz Ahmad had firstly
deposed that appellant Sayeed Ahmad had caught hold of the
deceased whereas he had later deposed that the appellant had
caught of the hand of the deceased; (v) there is a contradiction
between the evidence of Mumtaz Ahmad PW-2 and Khursheeda
Begum PW-3, the mother of the deceased, regarding the
position of the deceased and his mother at the time of the
incident; inasmuch as Mumtaz Ahmad had deposed that the
deceased was walking ahead of his mother whereas Khursheeda
Begum had deposed that she was walking ahead of the
deceased at the time of the incident (vi) the incident had
happened in a flash of the moment and therefore Mumtaz
Ahmad PW-2, who claimed to be present few yards away from
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the place of the occurrence could not have witnessed the
incident.