Judgment

ORDER :- We have, with the above assistance of Shri M. Qamaruddin, learned Counsel for the appellant have gone through the judgment of the High Court. The High Court on a careful consideration of the evidence adduced in the case has come to a definite conclusion that the appellant was guilty for culpable homicide not amounting to murder punishable under S. 304-I of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.

2. The learned counsel for the appellant has contended that the finding of the High Court that the head injury No. 1 was the cause of the death of deceased cannot be sustained inasmuch as the death has been caused due to the cumulative effect of six other injuries on the person of the deceased. It was also contended in this connection by the learned counsel that the evidence of Dr. Jagadananda Negi, P. W. 9 who performed the post-mortem on the body of the deceased to the effect that injury No. 1 was fatal should not be accepted. We are afraid that we cannot accept this contention put forth by the learned counsel. It is evident from the evidence of P.W. 9 Dr. Jagadananda Negi who performed the post-mortem on the body of the deceased that the injury No. 1 was fatal; there was effusion of