REVENGE OF FRIEND IN NEED

Edgar Oswald man aged 53-58yrs ,bachelor,living alone in Malappuram district used to entertain his friends with liquor & in turn the friends used to a share a woman with him according to the need.
On afternoon A dead body was brought for autopsy from this area. The dead body & myself were entering the mortuary together. To my dismay I was profuse bleeding from the left eye of the victim. I enquired this with the IO & he told me that it is ant bite. I was not convinced. Anyway after initial preparation ,I made the general examination & looked for ante mortem injuries. I found some abrasions at different parts f the body; contusion in the form of boggy swelling over the back of head. Closer examination of the left eye revealed that the eye ball is almost completely scooped out except for a little attachment with the periorbital tissues.In addition to the above I noticed an incised wound at the outer angle of left eye& temple(1.5cm) with tailing outwards.This finding proved that a sharp weapon was used for this job.
Internally there was sub dural & subarchenoid hemorrhages. Viscera & blood preserved for chemical analysis prooved + ve for ethyl alcohol.opinion as to cause of death furnished as the deceased died of head injury & injury in the eye was also sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause death.I felt that the eye injury could have been produced during the perimortem period .
Subsequent investigation revealed the following.
One day a teen age daughter of one of the accused went in search of her father into Oswald's house. He was not there,but oswald tried to molest this girl & out of fear she ran away & conveyed this to her father. Her father was waiting to get an opportunityto take revenge. One day they were enjoying together with drinks & woman. After that there occured a verbal combat followed by physical in which he sustained the head injury & out of rage he scooped out his eyeball. On seeing all the woman escaped from there in autorickshaw & the auto driver was made one witness. All these persons were arrested & the case came before Principal sessions Manjery. During trial all the witnesses including the prostitute became hostile ; because they got their visa to Gulf country. I was the only person for the dead. The prosecutor was also not interested.The accused were defended by Adv. Kunjirama menon & I had a tough time. In the re-examination I was forcing the PP to ask questions to counteract the defence's plea. The fate of the case was that all the accused were acquitted for want of evidence.

Prior to my court appearence while I was in my home at Velappaya; two persons belonging to CPM faction approahed me telling that I should say "YES"only to the questions put forward by the advocate;they didnot mention whether prosecution or defence. I just kicked them out in my own style.
dr.n.rajaram