appellant-convict advised him to sleep inside the room, as the weather was
bad. Thus, all the three deceased persons ended up sleeping in one room.
9.
PW-2 claims that the door of the room in which, the three deceased
were sleeping, was open. However, according to the PW-4, it was locked
from inside. The PW-2 lived at a distance of 200 metres from the place of
the incident. It is pertinent to note that the High Court disbelieved the
presence of the PW-2 at the place of occurrence, i.e., the house.
10.
On 06.08.2014, at around 12.30 am, the PW-2 is said to have woken
up to see flames and smoke coming from the room, where the deceased
persons were sleeping. The PW-2 and his sister Soni (PW-4) claim to have
seen the appellant-convict setting the room on fire and thereafter, fastening
the door latch from outside and running away.
11.
It is the case of the prosecution that the PW-2 and PW-4 opened the
door and at that point of time, saw the appellant-convict running from the
roof towards the stairs. According to the case of the prosecution, Amzad
and one another person by name Shafiq (both not examined) also saw the
appellant-convict running away.
12.
The PW-1 (Original first informant- uncle of the appellant-convict)
was sleeping in his room in his own house at the time of the incident. The
uncle’s house is at the distance of about 200 metres from the place of the
occurrence.
13.
The relatives first took Islamuddin, Irshad and Naushad to one Pooja
Hospital situated at Najibabad in a vehicle. The Hospital declined to admit
them. All the three injured were thereafter, taken to the hospitals at Bijnore
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