commit miscarriage by administering medicine to the informant. The informant had, however, been able to give birth to a baby in the meantime. Having received the information, the accused no. 1 also called his other family members named in the FIR to the house of the informant. After arrival of other accused persons i.e. the accused no. 2, the accused no. 3 and the accused no. 5, the accused no. 1 snatched the new born baby from the clutches of the informant and took the baby to another room and killed the new born baby by strangulation in presence of the said other accused persons [and] maid servant of the informant. The informant, even after the incident, tolerated the tortures inflicted by the accused no. 1. When on 28.10.2021, the informant along with the maid servant and another witness went to the house of the accused no. 1 to apprise the father of the accused no.1 i.e. the accused no. 3 about the earlier incidents, they were asked to sit. Thereafter, the accused no. 2, the accused no. 4 and the accused no. 5 came to the place and at the instigation of the accused no. 1, they physically assaulted the informant. The maid servant had, however, stated that the accused no. 3 was not aware of the aforesaid events. The maid servant, the informant and another witness who went to the house of the accused persons had, in their statements, did not specifically implicate the accused no. 3 for any participation in the incident of assault upon the informant.”
