(PW-8), Gadigeppa Talawar (PW-9) and Hanamappa Talawar (PW-10) had seen the appellant carrying the girl child on his shoulder on 30th December 2010, they would have immediately accosted him and questioned him about the girl, for by then the disappearance of R had become common knowledge for all villagers. Therefore, the date on which Bhimappa Talawar (PW-8), Gadigeppa Talawar (PW-9) and Hanamappa Talawar (PW-10) saw the appellant with the small girl on his shoulder was not 30th December 2010. Rather, 30th December 2010 was the date on which these witnesses had informed other villagers that they had seen the appellant carrying a small girl on his shoulder about two days earlier. On a careful scrutiny of the statements made by Bhimappa Talawar (PW-8), Gadigeppa Talawar (PW-9) and Hanamappa Talawar (PW-10), it becomes apparent that they had met Sanganabasappa (PW-1) on 30th December 2010 and informed him about their sighting. The inconsistency of dates, thus, can be explained as inadvertence or strained memory due to passage of time, not resulting in displacing the case against the appellant that the prosecution has made out. 16. On the question of recovery of the dead body on the basis of the appellant’s disclosure statement, we have referred to the statements of Gadigeppa Talawar (PW-9), Hanamappa Talawar Criminal Appeal Nos. 1473-1474 of 2017 Page 15 of 30