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Anjan Kumar Sarma vs State Of Assam on 23 May, 2017

33. The Investigating Officer in his evidence has stated that he has seized a piece of the auto rickshaw during the course of investigation. But he has not stated anything about any investigation done by him with reference to the auto rickshaw in which the accused and deceased traveled on that particular day. Though he has stated that he has not examined the auto rickshaw driver, but nothing has been stated in the cross-examination or in the examination-in-chief as to what efforts actually he has made to ascertain about the said auto rickshaw belonging to whom and who was the driver of the auto rickshaw on that particular day. In our opinion auto rickshaw driver is the proper person to actually say what exactly happened on that particular date and he was the person actually last seen the accused and deceased together in the auto rickshaw even according to the case 39 of the prosecution. Therefore, it is not that immediately after they left Gurunanak Jhara immediately the incident happened. Thereafter also according to the prosecution the accused and deceased were seen by PW-1 and the driver of the auto rickshaw but said evidence is not available to the prosecution. Therefore, in this regard it is worth to refer to a decision of the Apex Court in the case of Anjan Kumar Sarma and others vs. State of Assam reported in (2017) 14 SCC 359 wherein the Apex Court at paras-19, 20, 23 to 25 has summed up the circumstances of last seen together, how it could be made basis for conviction. It is observed that:
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