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5. The learned counsel for the victim submits, that in an unsigned statement made under Section 161 of the Cr.P.C., by the victim, to the Investigating Officer (IO) concerned, he has mentioned certain disparaging casteist words, being spoken at the crime site, but yet since the earlier thereto statement is signed, by the victim, and, the latter is not signed, by him. Therefore, prima facie at this stage, probative value is to be 2 of 4 assigned to the signed statement(s), than to the subsequent unsigned statement. Furthermore, the delay in the makings of the subsequent unsigned statement(s), also makes it tained with a vice of concoction, and, afterthought.