B.A. MASODKAR, J.:---On the sprawling outskirts of Greater Bombay lies the area which is known as Versova, an erstwhile fishermen village now turned into a concrete jungle. In Yari Galli of this area was situate Ratanshaw Bungalow. It was a house standing as if a lone island surrounded on all sides by huge and tall concrete structures developed and erected by builders. This Ratanshaw Bungalow was tenanted property and one R.R. Todiwalla appears to be its landlord. It is said that one Harbachansingh Sidhu was the original tenant.

2. The record shows that Harbachnasingh Sidhu left Bombay for Punjab some time before 1980. The tenement was occupied by his wife Pritipal, the victim of the homicidal death, and Miss Bhupinder Kuar, accused No. 3. The occurrence, according to the prosecution, took place between the night of April 18 and April 19, 1983 during which Mrs. Pritipal was done to death and her dead body was buried in the compound near the fencing lying to the back side of this bungalow. Mrs. Pritipal was in her fifties. The post-mortem report made by Dr. Subhash Khanolkar (P.W. 16) shows that she must have been killed after she had taken food. The contents of the stomach