30. A neighbour of the parents of the victim had deposed as prosecution witness No. 5. He had stated that after receiving information that the body of the victim was taken to the Akra Cremation Ground he had gone there. He had stated that, the family of the appellant took the dead body for cremation to such cremation ground. In cross-examination, he had said that when he went to the Akra Cremation Ground he did not find any member of the family of the appellant. Similarly, prosecution witness No. 6 was another neighbour who stated in his deposition that, he did not see any family member of the appellant at the morgue. However, prosecution witness No. 7 who is another neighbour of the father of the victim had stated that, when he went to the cremation ground, he found the appellant and other members of the family of the appellant including the brother of the appellant there. He had stated that after they saw him, they fled away and on being asked, appellant had confessed his guilt by saying that he committed the crime after taking liquor. In cross-examination, prosecution witness No. 7 had initially stated that, he disclosed such facts for the first time in Court and thereafter claimed that he stated such facts before the police.
