J U D G M E N T

Leave granted.

2. The appellants before this Court are the two cousins of the deceased who was found dead in her rented accommodation in House No.424-B, Ground Floor, Chirag Delhi on 29.05.2013. The deceased was a 25 years old young girl who was a permanent resident of Manipur and at the relevant time was working in a call centre at Delhi. The post mortem was conducted next day on Signature3 Not0 Veri.fie0d 5.2013 which recorded following observations:

Digitally signed by Jayant Kumar Arora Date: 2024.03.23

11:09:22 IST Reason:

“a) Part of nose is missing over right side and piece of it is attached on the left side.

b) Nibbling marks present over both the upper eye lids c) wound size of 5 cm is present over dorsum of right foot; margins are irregular and show nibbling marks d) all wounds are post mortem in origin”

The cause of death could not be ascertained in the post mortem report.

3. Some puzzling facts of this case leading to this appeal are that the First Information Report (for short ‘FIR’) was only registered by the police on 31.05.2013, initially under Section 306 of Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’), against unknown persons, when there was blood spattered all ove