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sprouting of a purported improvement and embellishment in her deposition on oath, generates an inference that the statement of PW-

13 purportedly made by her to the Investigating Officer was not recorded by the Investigating Officer in the manner as disclosed/stated by her to him. In aftermath, the ensuing and concomitant deduction which sprouts is that the purported improvement and embellishment hence as attributed to PW-13 cannot lend any strength to the contention of the learned counsel for the appellants that her deposition being hence ridden with improvement and embellishment over and upon her previous statement recorded in writing, renders it bereft of veracity. Rather omission on the part of defence counsel portrays acquiescence to the defence counsel to the version qua the occurrence propounded by her in her examination-in-chief. Moreso the above argument also falters in the face of previous statement attributed to PW-13 being an unsigned statement. For reiteration, the relevant improved or embellished portion having not been put to PW-13 by the learned defence counsel while cross-examining her renders the purported ...17...