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82. She further stated that she also found images of suicide notes other than the suicide notes which are referred to her for analysis in mobile phone Exh.1. She has filed hard copies of suicide note and photos of accused and victim girl which are at Exh. 179/1 to 179/17. She found the photographs Exh.180 and 181, 154 and 155 and they were found in the mobile of accused. She also found the similar photographs in the mobile of accused which are at Exh. 182 to 184.

83. She further stated that she extracted all the data found in the mobile of the accused and saved in the hard disk. Accordingly, he issued a CA report Exh.185. Then she transferred all the data from all the mobiles and sim card and memory card in the hard disk. She deposed that in a similar way she extracted the data from the mobile of discharged person Aarti, Santosh and Kaushalya.

142. The statement Exh. 74 shows that victim girl has stated to PW 11 HC Rewatkar that her stepmother Kaushalya and her brother Santosh were talking about her marriage and therefore she got stressed and consumed poison. It is the case of the prosecution that the victim girl gave statement as per the say of accused, in order to falsely implicate the discharged persons.

143. PW-25-IO-Dandwate, in her oral testimony, narrated the investigation carried out by her in this regard. PW-25 deposed that on 08/12/2022, she had issued letter to the Dean of Medical College, Nagpur for providing treatment paper of the incident occurred in the month of October. Accordingly, treatment papers were received vide Judgment 65 CONF-2-2024-F.odt Exhibit No. 102. Thereupon, she had recorded statement of Satish Nipane from whom the accused had purchased bug killer medicine. During the course of investigation, it was revealed that at the time of incident occurred in the month of October, accused Guddu compelled the 'victim girl' to write suicide notes. Photographs of suicide notes were also taken in the month of October and those were found in the mobile phone and the 'victim girl' had given false information to Police at the instance of accused Guddu.

158. To prove the suicide notes, prosecution has examined PW-23- Shivaji Virkar, who is handwriting expert. He examined five suicide notes written by victim girl with specimen natural handwriting. The original notes were marked as Q1 to Q9 and two notebooks were containing natural handwriting of victim girl. He marked it as N12 and 75 in green. Then he carried out examination with the scientific equipment and he came to the conclusion that red encircled writing marked Exh. Q1 to Q9 compared with red encircled writing marked Exh. N12 and N 75 revealed similarities in the writing habit indicating towards common authorship. Accordingly, he has given his opinion at Exh. 203 and the Judgment 70 CONF-2-2024-F.odt reasons for reaching such conclusion at Exh. 204. No such material is brought on record to disbelieve his evidence in the cross-examination. Therefore, it can be said that the suicide notes sent for examination, were in the handwriting of victim girl.

d) All the suicide notes proved by the prosecution contains the allegations against discharged person.

Judgment 76 CONF-2-2024-F.odt

e) PW 1 N proved that accused used to prepare suicide notes from victim girl.

f) The photographs Exh.29 to 31, Exh 37, Exh 22 and Exh 81 taken by PW 1 N and found in the mobile of accused do not show suicide notes on spot. According to PW 1 N, accused after the death of victim girl plotted suicide notes on the spot.