Vaishali at Hajipur, which is 8 Kms. from the Bidupur Police Station. The fardbeyan states that at about 4 pm on 18.10.1989, the uncle of the informant, the deceased Jugeshwar Chaudhary, as usual, went to drink toddy at the place of Upendra Paswan (P.W.4). He sits besides palm tree from which he extracts and sells toddy. After sometime, the informant heard the sound of bomb blast and a gun shot from the direction where his uncle had gone. Out of curiosity he ran. When he reached the house of Jugul Singh, he found that his uncle was lying on a cot and was profusely bleeding from all over his body. When he asked his uncle, what happened, his uncle, in presence of several other people, disclosed that while he was having toddy at the place of Upendra Paswan (P.W.4), three persons, namely, Raj Kumar Mishra, Shambhunath Singh and Sarvesh Kumar Singh came. Raj Kumar Mishra threw a bomb which exploded and he fell to the ground grievously injured. Shambhunath Singh then put a pistol on his chest and fired. Sarvesh Kumar Singh then stabbed him on his head. Neighbouring people who reached immediately decided to carry his uncle to Hajipur for treatment but soon thereafter on way itself he died. He states that his uncle was unmarried and issueless and the reason for this gruesome act was that there had been long standing dispute between Shambhunath Singh and Jugul Kishore Singh. There were cases and counter cases. The deceased had always sided with
