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16. The inference to be drawn from the factum of the witness (supra) during the course of his cross-examination by the learned Public Prosecutor concerned, thus admitting qua Ex. PW6/A bearing his signatures, is that, the deposition made in his examination-in-chief wherebys, he resiled from the earlier made statement to the police, rather is required to be declared as inadmissible. The reason for forming the above conclusion generates from the factum, that in terms of Sections 91 and 92 of the Indian Evidence Act, provisions whereof stand extracted hereinafter, thus upon a witness admitting the occurrence of his valid signatures on a scribed document, thereupon, the witness concerned becomes rather estopped from orally detracting from the contents of the document, whereons, he admits his signatures. Therefore, the existence of valid signatures over a scribed document but makes all the contents borne therein, to be readable or admissible in evidence, rather than any parole evidence contra thereto being declared to be admissible in evidence.