school, PW-1 was told by her mother-in-law that the deceased had not returned. Thereafter, she started searching for the deceased since 5:00 am.. About 2:00 pm., she found the dead body of her daughter lying in a wheat-field near the hotel. She found that her throat was cut. There were multiple injuries in her both the hands and both the thighs and her abdomen was torn. She also deposed that upon reaching the place where the dead body was lying, she had seen few condoms, liquor bottles, biscuits, kurkure, glasses and a jug lying near the dead body. When she started collecting those articles, respondent No. 2 pushed her, whereafter, she had become unconscious and she did not know where did those articles subsequantly disappear. Her statement was recorded before the Magistrate under Section 164 of the Cr.P.C.. The accused Ravindra Rai was arrested from Lucknow, who confessed that he and other persons including respondents No. 2 to 4 had raped her daughter one by one and, thereafter, said Ravindra Rai, respondents No. 2 to 4 and Manoj Ram had killed her with the knife. He is also said to have confessed that the miscreants were wearing gloves in their hands at the time of occurrence.
