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Bodh Raj @ Bodha And Ors vs State Of Jammu And Kashmir on 3 September, 2002

Narayan Singh (PW6) of course, has turned hostile, but Bhojraj Singh as PW8 has supported the case of the prosecution on this aspect. The minor variations and contradictions in the statement of prosecution notwithstanding, the fact that the deceased was lastly seen with the accused and the extra judicial confession of the accused is proved beyond reasonable doubt, which eventually lead to the discovery of the dead body of Jalam Singh. Significantly, large number of villagers despite having searched in the jungle adjoining the village Rampura, were unable to locate the dead body but it was traced out immediately after disclosure made by the accused. As held by the Supreme Court in Bodh Raj @ Bodha, supra, "the last seen theory comes into play where the time gap between the point of time when the accused and deceased were seen last alive and when the deceased is found dead is so small that possibility of any person other than the accused being the author of crime becomes impossible." In the present case, the accused was seen in the company of the deceased late in the evening of 27.02.2010 and thereafter accused alone returned back to his village. When Devi, wife of the deceased Jalam Singh went to his house to enquire about her husband, accused told her that he has stayed back in Gafa Imli Ka Badiya and would come on his own, but at this time, accused handed over the axe/`kulhari' of the deceased to his wife. Mere fact that this `kulhari' was not received by the Investigating Officer, would not be a lacuna so (18 of 22) [CRLA-67/2013] fatal in the prosecution case so as to discard the entire evidence. Besides, that 'kulhari' was not the weapon of offence.
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