even after the dead body was recovered, i.e., on 2nd October, 2013, makes their entire testimony doubtful and unworthy of credence. 18. Learned senior counsel further submitted that, if at all, the witnesses had seen the child victim in the company of the accused appellant on the alleged day, their natural reaction would have been to disclose the said fact, that they had seen the accused appellant along with the child victim, to the father of the girl child who had initiated the search operations in the afternoon of 30th September, 2013 itself and made enquiries at the watchman chawl as well. He submitted that investigation agency has resorted to padding by creating the evidence of the witnesses of last seen together theory. 19. Shri Basant, further, submitted that the evidence of extra-judicial confession, sought to be proved through Anil Mahatam Singh (PW-17), is also 15 Criminal Appeal No(s). 1954-1955 of 2022