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(Ex.PW18/B) prepared by the IO for purposes of death report and application for post-mortem examination. This document dated 13.06.1995 sets out the background facts on same lines as of rukka/FIR. It makes no reference to the version added by PW6 & PW20 to the knowledge of the IO. This, the counsel argued, shows that these witnesses had not come up till 13.06.1995.
52. We are not impressed. The purpose of the document Ex.PW-18/B was only to bring to the knowledge of the autopsy doctor the requisite background facts. The facts incorporated in the same were sufficient to assist in reaching appropriate conclusions as to the cause of death. The autopsy doctor would not be interested in the identity of the assailants or, for that matter, of the witnesses to the occurrence. The version of PW-6 and PW-20 about the events leading to the crime from such document is, therefore, inconsequential.