referred extensively to the depositions of the prosecution witnesses, more particularly, of P.W.1, P.W.2, P.W.3, P.W.4 and P.W.5 [the informant] to submit that no evidence has emerged against the accused-petitioners to hold them responsible for the death of the deceased. He has further submitted that the deceased had met his death as a result of drowning. He has submitted that when the deceased was confronted by some persons at the river bank with the allegation that he was indulging in immoral act with the girl, the deceased on the apprehension that he would face retribution at the hands of the villagers immediately, tried to escape from the scene by jumping into the river. When he jumped into the river, he might have got himself hurt by getting smacked with stones at the riverbed. It was as a result of such impact the deceased had ultimately met his death. The girl with whom the deceased was found at the river bank on the alleged date of incident, had deposed as P.W.1. In her deposition, more particularly, in her cross-examination, she stated that she did not know how the deceased died after she returned from the place of occurrence. She deposed to the effect that after she was brought back from place of occurrence by her cousin, she did not know what had happened thereafter, with the deceased. It is also his submission that the other witnesses also did not depose to the effect that they had seen any overt act on the part of the accused-petitioners in the act of alleged assault on the deceased.
