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New Delhi, Jun 20 (PTI) The Delhi High Court has expressed concern over lack of knowledge on science among prosecutors, as it disregarded a dying declaration which alleged that the victim was burnt to death when the accused aimed a running gas pipe towards her after removing it from the stove. Justice S N Dhingra referred to the lack of proper understanding of science which did not allow the investigating agency to discern that no person could be set on fire by pointing a gas pipeline after removing it from burner. "It is unfortunate that the public prosecutors and the investigators do not have proper understanding of science," the court said. "I can teach you law but not science," Justice Dhingra said exasperatedly after a public prosecutor insisted that the victim had claimed in her dying declaration that she was set afire by using a gas pipeline. The prosecutor was opposing bail plea of a man arrested for allegedly burning his daughter-in-law to death. "The gas is stored in cylinder in liquefied form under high pressure and the moment the gas comes out into atmosphere, it is bound to expand and spread all around. "Any person holding a gas pipe if tries to lit a match stick, the gas will catch fire instantly and spread in the entire room and the person trying to burn other will have to burn himself too," the court said. It further added the person (accused) can save himself only if he is protected by fire resistant clothes. It is not the case of the prosecution that any other person got burnt in this incident of burning of the deceased because of cooking gas. The court allowed bail plea of Ram Babu arrested for allegedly causing death of his daughter-in-law. "As per laws of physics, the gas coming from high pressure to atmospheric pressure or low pressure area will expand immediately and it will spread into the entire area and it cannot be aimed like a water or kerosene oil stream and the person lighting match stick will have to burn himself also. This theory of burning by gas pipe, therefore, must be discarded," it said. The prosecutor, who seemed not impressed by Justice Dhingra''s words, said it might be his opinion. "This is not my opinion. This is what science says," Justice Dhingra shot back, making the prosecutor to admit that he does not have science background. "I am sure that any expert having knowledge of science would also discard the theory put forth by the prosecution that the gas pipe can be aimed towards one particular person and he alone can be burnt, saving other person present in the room," Justice Dhingra said.
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