C.G.SURI, J.

1. On the afternoon of 31-3-1971, Shri Raniodh Singh (since deceased) of village Badni Kalan. Police Station Nihalsinghwala in Ferozepore district was travelling in a car and when he had gone about a furlong or two beyond Phulewala Road culvert, his car was waylaid and he was murdered with fire weapons. His son Kanwar Iqbal Singh, who claimed to have been travelling in the same car and who had some simple blunt weapon injuries on his person, lodged a report at 3.50 P.M. at police Station Bashapuraria which had jurisdiction in the area. The occurrence was described to have taken place about twenty minutes earlier and according to the story as given in that first information report, the deceased and his party had set out in three motor vehicles as the betrothal of the daughter of the deceased was to take place that day in village Mudki. Fourteen Persons belonging to different villages in the districts of Ludhiana. Sangrur and Ferozepore were named as the assailants and it was alleged that they had come to the scene of ambush in two cars which were seen parked by the road side and that these assailants had opened fire on the deceaseds car from both sides of the ro