vehemently and fervently opposed the submissions advanced by Shri Basant. She urged that the prosecution has established the guilt of the accused appellant by leading unimpeachable and complete chain of circumstantial evidence in the form of motive, last seen together circumstance, extrajudicial confession and the scientific evidence in the form of FSL report, which establishes that the shoes of accused appellant recovered by the 2nd Investigating Officer (PW-18) in furtherance of the information provided by him under Section 27 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, bore soil matching with that of the pond where the dead body of the child victim had been disposed of by the accused appellant after committing the crime. 26. She urged that neither the witnesses of the circumstance of last seen together and extra-judicial confession had any animosity against the accused 20 Criminal Appeal No(s). 1954-1955 of 2022