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 4