(i) On 13.07.1995, at about 10.00 P.M., Jagdeo Mallah (since deceased), having had his dinner, was sitting with his family at his house. At that time, a tati (a structure made of straws), erected in front of the house of Birendra Mallah (informant) and adjacent to the house of Vishwanath Mallah, had fallen on the ground due to rain and thunder. On noticing that the tati had fallen on the ground, accused, Ganpat Mallah, under the impression that Vishwanath Mallah was the one, who had deliberately demolished the tati, started abusing Vishwanath Mallah. As Vishwanath Mallah told accused Ganpat Mallah not to abuse, for, the tati had fallen due to rain and thunder, an altercation ensued between Vishwant Mallah and accused Ganpat Mallah. Seeing the altercation between Vishwanath Mallah and accused Ganpat Mallah, Birendra Mallah (P.W. 6) intervened by saying that the said tati had fallen, because of rain and thunder. In the meanwhile, however, accused Ganpat Mallah began to assault Vishwanath Mallah by means of a lathi . Birendra Mallah, accompanied by his mother, Sahodari Devi, his father, Jagdeo