informed to the brother of the deceased – Mahesh Thakur (PW-2) about the incident, then Mahesh Thakur (PW-2) firstly lodged first information report against the appellants herein and the juvenile accused vide Ex.P-8 and thereafter, lodged morgue intimation vide Ex.P-7 stating that on the fateful day, three accused persons assaulted the deceased by which he suffered injury and died on the spot. Thereafter, Alexander Kiro (PW-12) – investigating officer, reached to the spot and collected bloodstained soil and plain soil vide Ex.P-15 and thereafter, panchnama was prepared vide Ex.P20. Dead body of the deceased was sent for postmortem which was conducted by Dr. Vipin Jain (PW-3) and his postmortem report is Ex.P-3. Cause of death was head injury. Thereafter, the appellants were arrested and pursuant to the memorandum statement of appellant J. Venkatesh vide Ex.P-13, wooden stick admeasuring 29½" width 5¼" circumference was recovered with blood stains vide Ex.P-16. Similarly, on the basis of memorandum statement of appellant Rajkumar Pandey vide Ex.P-14, one broken piece of wooden stick 27¼" x 6¼" was seized vide Ex.P-17. Articles seized were sent for forensic examination to the Forensic Science Laboratory and the FSL report is Ex.P-25 according to which blood as well as human blood was found on wooden stick Articles C & D and blood was found on shirt & pant of the deceased also, but blood group could not be ascertained. Statement of eyewitness G. Ashok Kumar (PW-9) under Section 161 of the CrPC was recorded on 16-8-2014 and statements of other two eyewitnesses – Soni Bai (PW-10) & Tulsi Beni (PW-11) under Section 161 of the CrPC were recorded on 29-8-2014.
