early 2008 and each SN frame was reduced using the galaxy-template subtraction scheme developed by @alard00. The point spread function (PSF) photometry was performed at the SN location in the galaxy-template subtracted images. The unfiltered instrumental magnitudes were calibrated using the USNO B1.0 $R$-band magnitudes of about 15 isolated stars. The light curve thus produced was found to be 0.15 mag off from the Cousins $R$ band light curve produced by multi-band observation carried out at ARIES (described below) and the ROTSE magnitudes were scaled accordingly.

The SN 2008in was also monitored with the Ultraviolet Optical Telescope (UVOT) on board [*Swift*]{} from +5d to +60d. The UVOT filters $uvw2, uvm2, uvw1, u, b$, and $v$ have their effective wavelength at 2030, 2231, 2634, 3501, 4329, and 5402 Å, respectively (Poole et al. 2008). The UVOT data reduction was performed following the prescriptions of @brown09a. A 5 aperture is used to measure the counts for the coincidence loss correction whereas a 3 aperture was used for the photometry. For the filters $uvw2, uvm2$, and $uvw1$, the last epoch (obtained about 60 days after explosion when the UV flux was very weak) data were used to subtract the galaxy light, while in 