“…Then searching the girl, family members of Chheddan went towards the sugarcane field and began searching, then they found that the dead body of Uma was lying in the sugarcane field. Blood was coming out of her urinal track, her clothes had torn up and she had died. I also went to the spot. The family members of Chheddan had informed the Police Station, on which the police team of Police Station Ikauna had arrived. They had carried out the inquest proceedings at the spot itself and obtained my signature on the Memo of Inquest. When the Memo of Inquest had been shown and read over to the witness, he said that it was the same Memo of Inquest which had been prepared in my presence and I had market my signature on that which I verify…” 45. Interestingly, PW­2 stated in cross­examination, the opposite of what he stated in chief­examination. What PW­2 stated in cross­ examination was that “the inquest proceedings on the dead body of the girl were not performed before me”. 46. PW­6, the Investigation Officer stated in chief­examination as follows: “….The inquest proceedings could not be performed due to being night time. On 09.03.12 the inquest proceedings had been completed and the dead body had been sent to District­ Bahraich for postmortem after sealing­stamping the same. Same day I recorded the statement of the complainant on the spot, inspected the spot and recorded the statements of witnesses…” 47. In cross­examination PW­6 reiterated that the inquest proceedings were not conducted on the same night, but were 22