D. P. DESAI, P. D. DESAI, J.

( 1 ) IT is therefore clearly established that at three stages after the appellant surrendered himself into police custody he made statements containing substantially the same information with regard to the fact that he had concealed the dead body of the deceased Raijibhai in a drum containing rice in his house; and that brings us to the question of law raised by Mr. Shelat. For this purpose we may recapitulate the three statements attributed to the appellant which according to the findings given by us were made by the appellant. The first statement was:- His dead body I have packed in a bundle and have kept in a drum in my house and on the same (I) have kept rice. The second statement made before the P. S. T. in the morning was to the effect that he was willing to show the dead body of the deceased Raijibhai Somabhai which he had packed in a quilt and had concealed in a drum of rice in his house. The words in his house are not to be found in the English memorandum of evidence of the P. S. 1. at Exh. 24. But they are to be found in the Gujarati record of the evidence of that witness. The third statement is to be found in the Panchnama Exh. 11 the content

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