Importance and requirement of site plan......

Entry wound is bigger than exit, possibility of......

A site plan is required to be prepared by a qualified police officer or other suitable agency or patwari, but if it is an inhabited enclosure or of land inside a town or village site, the site plan shall not be prepared by Patwaris. The requirement of site plan in law is referred in Rule 25.13 of Police Rules, 1934.

Requirement of preparing two site plans shows that in the first plan, reference relating to facts observed by the police officer should be entered while in the latter, references based on the statement of witnesses which are not relevant in evidence may be recorded. Thus, the law requires that one site plan prepared by the police officer or expert shall be on the basis of their own observation of crime scene and second shall include some facts based on the statement of witnesses to show connection of this site plan with the case under inquiry and this second site plan shall not be sent to the court but can help the investigating officer to refresh his memory when appearing in the dock to depose as witness. We have observed that both expert or the investigating officer have failed to perform their duty to prepare the site plan accurately which is a violation of sub-rule (v) above.

Bullet entered from left side of rib cage and exited from right side of the rib cage without its exit from the back, otherwise doctor must have mentioned the further exit of bullet from the back side as she has mentioned while showing its entry inlet. Therefore, there was a contradiction in medical evidence as bullet entered from the left side of chest whereas prosecution claimed it a fire on the front of chest. Another touchy aspect in medical evidence is the size of entry wound which is bigger than the exit wound and it is not possible in ordinary circumstances but presence of tattooing can produce such type of effect if the fire is made with palleted weapon because the central mass of pellets begins to disperse, entry wounds have a large central defect, the edges of which appear scalloped, looking somewhat “ratnibbled” or resembling the pattern of a cookie cutter, but in bullet injury it is possible only in situations as explained in Parikh’s Textbook of Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic Medicine and Toxicology (SEVENTH EDITION), 2003; Section IV, MECHANICAL INJURIES-GENERAL ASPECTS at Page 4.46;