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16. The Learned APP referring to the allegation made by the defense that the second wife or the step mother of the prosecutrix i.e. Babita, acted in connivance with the prosecutrix, as she wanted to extort money from the accused, submitted that there is nothing on record to suggest that any such demand was made to the accused, other than the mere assertion by the accused, and the fact that she had gone to visit the accused in jail. He also pointed out that despite Court summons, she neither appeared before the court, nor is her whereabouts known, which seems contrary to the conduct of a person, trying to extort money by falsely implicating another, in which case the person will stay in contact to exert pressure on the accused. He further argued that this ground of the defense stands on whimsical presumption as there can be hardly a case where a step mother will wrongly side with her step daughter to falsely implicate her husband in such a serious and deplorable case of incestuous rape of his own daughter and malign her family and husband's reputation.