the doctor at Kairon rendered "first aid" and advised 1957 the father to take his son to V.J. Hospital at Amritsar. Bakshish Singh Bhagwan Singh then took Bachhinder Singh to the Th St t v.i/ p . Railway Station but before the arrival of the train he e a~° ""_10 .went to the Police Post at Kairon which is at a distance Kapur/. of about 100 yds. from the Railway Station in order to make a report. As the Assistant Sub Inspector was away at Sarhali, he returned to the Railway Station and took his son to the Amritsar hospital by the train leaving Kairon at 9-47 p.m. Bhagwan Singh was accompanied at thattime by his younger son, Narvel Singh, P.W. 12, and by Shamir Singh, lnder Singh and Naringan Singh. Soon after their arrival at the Amritsar hospital Bachhinder Singh was examined by Dr. Kanwal Kishore, P.W. 2, at 11-45 p.m. and finding the injury to be of a serious nature the doctor sent information to the Police as a result of which Head Constable Maya Ram Sharma, P.W. 4, arrived at the hospital sometime after midnight and, in the presence of Dr. Mahavir Sud, P.W. 17, recorded the dying declaration of Bachhindet Singh, Exhibit P-H, after getting a certificate from the doctor that the injured person was in a fit state to make a statement. This statement is the basis of the First Information Report, Exhibit P-H. 1, which is a copy of Exhibit P-H. This report was recorded on August 2, 1954, at 7-50 a.m. at Police Station Sarhali which, we were told, is about 20 miles or so away from Amritsar. In the early hours of the morning Dr. K.C. Saronwala P.W. 1 performed an operation on Bachhinder Singh and extracted a bullet from the left abdominal wall which was handed over to the Police. But Bachhinder Singh died at 1-35 p.m. oh August 2, 1954. An inquest report Exhibit P-K was prepared at 2-30 p.m. by Head Constable Maya Ram, P. W. 4.
