( 1 ) ON 29-4-1965, at about 1-30 p. m. , when Sri Ram Parkash (P. W. 1) along with his friend Sri Kanhaiya Lal (P. W. 3) were passing through the lane on the backside of House No. 489/6, situate in Prem Gali, heard the shrieks of a child from inside the house. They peeped through the window of that house which abutted the lane and which was open and they saw that the appellant Shanti Devi was holding a razor in her right hand and cutting the neck of a child (her own child), aged about one year and that the child was crying and blood was oozing out of his neck. Both of them hurriedly entered the house through its main gate on the other side of the wall while raising an alarm with a view to save the child s life. Meanwhile, Shiv Shankar (P. W. 4), a boy residing in the neighbourhood also came to the spot. Seeing all the three people, Smt. Shanti Devi, the appellant herein, left the child, sat down on a cot and threw the razor under the cot. Leaving Shri Kanhaiya Lal (P. W 3) and Shri Shiv Shankar (P,w. 4) at the spot, Shri Ram Parkash went to Gandhinagar Police Station of North Delhi District and gave a report of the occurrence On this, the police came to the spot, took up the inves

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