Short Note : 1. Where there were two factions in the village bitterly opposed to each other, their enmity having already taken twelve lives it would be idle to expect independent persons to come forward to give evidence and only partisan witnesses would be available, as they would even otherwise be natural and probable witnesses. Thus the evidence of the prosecution witnesses cannot be rejected only on the ground that they are partisan witnesses. No doubt the evidence of the prosecution witnesses cannot be rejected only on the ground that they are partisan witnesses. No doubt the evidence of the prosecution witnesses should stand the test of scrutiny. Badri and others v. State of U.P., AIR 1975 SC 1985 , Raghubir Singh v. State of U.P., 1971 SC 2156, relied on. Appeal partly allowed.