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It is trite law that the prosecution must establish it's case beyond reasonable doubt and the Investigating Offcer, who stepped into the witness box as PW 7, in order to prove the M.M.Salgaonkar 9/11 23 APEAL-110-23.odt prosecution case, has relied upon the spot panchnama as well as the CCTV footage drawn on the pen drive from Zenith House Pvt. Ltd., in presence of panchas. Through him the omissions in the statement of the key witness of the prosecution i.e. PW 1 are clearly brought on record. He has specifcally admitted that the pen drive, containing the video, was not sent to forensic analysis to identify whether the boy and the girl seen in the video are PW 1 and the Accused. He has also not adopted the technical procedure of obtaining the hash value of the recording. He categorically admitted that there was love affair between the victim and the Accused.