(b) P.W.1, therefore, informed the same to P.Ws.4 and 5, who are the neighbours. P.Ws.4 and 5 came to the house of the accused and enquired him as to where the deceased Madhan was. Initially he hesitated to answer the said queries. After a long persuasion, the accused told them that the child had died. When they further enquired as to how did the child died, he told that he would identify the place where the child had been buried. P.W.1 was also present at the time when the accused made such a statement. Then, the accused took P.Ws.4 and 5 and P.W.1 to the Adyar River and identified the place. P.Ws.4 and 5 went into the Adyar River and searched for the child. At last, they found that at the place identified by the accused, the dead body of the child was buried in the river mud. P.Ws.4 and 5 brought the body to the bank. P.W.1 thereafter went to the police station along with P.Ws.2 and 3, the neighbours and made a complaint against the accused, at 6.30 a.m., on 16.5.2004. P.W.9, the then Sub Inspector of Police, on receipt of the said complaint, registered a case, in Crime No.469 of 2004, under Section 302 of the Indian Penal code. Ex.P5 is the First Information Report. He forwarded Ex.P1 and Ex.P5 to the Court and handed over the case diary to P.W.10, the then Inspector of Police, for investigation. P.W.10, took up the case for investigation and at 7.00 a.m., he went to the place of occurrence and prepared an observation mahazar and a rough sketch, in the presence of P.W.6 and another witness. Between 7.30 and 9.00 a.m., he conducted inquest on the body of the deceased. Then, he forwarded the body for post-mortem. P.W.8, Dr.Selvakumar, conducted autopsy on the body of the deceased at the Government Royapettah Hospital on 17.5.2005 at 12.15 p.m. He found no external or internal injuries on the body of the deceased. So far as the internal organs are concerned, he found the heart normal in size and the chambers contained fluid blood. The lungs were heavy and voluminous, congested and oedematous. The hyoid bone was intact. Larynx and trachea contained black colour mud particles. Stomach contained 120 grams of partly digested food particles, mixed with black colour mud particles. Mucosa was found normal. Spleen and Kidneys were congested. Intestines distended with gas. The bladder was empty and the brain was normal. From these, he gave opinion that the deceased would appear to have died of drowning. Ex.P3 is the post-mortem certificate and Ex.P4 is the visera report. P.W.10 arrested the accused on 17.5.2004 and forwarded him to the judicial remand. He recovered the clothe materials from the body of the deceased and forwarded all the material objects to the Court. On completing the investigation, he https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/ laid charge-sheet against the accused.
