the breast, which were simple, fresh and caused by blunt object. He further testified that the appellant was admitted on 29-9-10 and was discharged on 1-10-2010. In cross, he admitted that the injuries sustained by the appellant might be self-inflicted injuries. It is worthy of notice that though the appellant had deposed that her breast was bitten by her husband, what PW-3 said is otherwise; he testified to the effect that he found multiple abrasions in both her breasts. In our opinion, tooth bites could not have caused abrasions, after all, abrasion is usually caused rubbing against hard and rough substance. Moreover, PW-3 opined that the abrasions could have been self-inflicted. PW-4 is the father of the appellant, who was not an eye-witness to the incident and deposed that on 28-9-2010, he got a news from his brother Nepal that his daughter was no more and on getting this news, he along with his relatives rushed to the house of the respondents and on reaching there, he saw the door of the house in a closed condition and when they opened it, they found the appellant lying on the ground having a smell of kerosene oil, who, on enquiry, stated that on the previous night at 12/1 midnight, all the accused-respondents, namely, R-4, R-2, R-5, R-3 and R-1 assaulted her and poured kerosene oil over the body of the appellant. He further deposed that his daughter told him that one of the accused tried to burn her by lighting fire, but she managed to rush out of the room and came to the courtyard and started making hue and cry and on hearing this, the local people assembled, but could not help her as they were threatened by the accused-respondents. In our opinion, such statements are merely hearsay evidence and are not admissible in evidence. He further deposed that the incident was brought to the notice of the local Pradhan and the Upa Pradhan, namely, Naresh Sarkar (PW-2) and other local people, who advised him to take back his daughter to his house and take recourse to law. However, PW-2, as already noticed, did not corroborate him at all. After returning from the Police Station, they stated to have visited one private doctor, Dilip Choudhury (not examined) who advised them to go to a Hospital, but this doctor was never examined. On
