17 of 21 Criminal Appeal No. 2129 of 2014and PW-9 who are the younger brothers of deceased Naseem Khan. As noticed hereinbefore, their oral testimonies were held as reliable by the trial Court and at the same time the High Court found their testimonies as unreliable. At the outset, it is to be noted that as in the case of PW-8, the defence had succeeded in bringing out the fact that both PW-5 and PW-9 had omitted to mention certain material facts to police while their statements were recorded. The question is whether they were omissions tantamounting to discredit the said witnesses. PW-5, while being examined in chief, deposed to have seen Ramjan causing injury by parena (sickle), Musaf Khan causing injury by stick and Habib causing injury by axe on his brother Naseem Khan. However, during cross- examination he would depose that regarding the infliction of injuries by the respondents using the aforementioned weapons on Naseem Khan, he did not make any statement before the police and