instance of the accused appellant is dubitable. It is impossible to believe that the accused appellant, who was a free bird till 3rd October 2013, would meticulously preserve the worthless incriminating articles i.e., his shoes, lungi and the watchman uniform, for the police to recover the same and thereby, face the risk of being incriminated. 23. Secondly, Shri Basant submitted that the FSL report depicting that the soil on the shoes was similar to the mud/soil of the location from where the victim child’s body was recovered is merely suggestive in nature and not conclusive. He urged that, if at all, the prosecution wanted to establish that the soil was from the same source, then a more exhaustive exercise was required to be conducted by collecting soil samples from different surrounding locations thereby, excluding the possibility of mud/soil found on the shoes being from the locality where the 18 Criminal Appeal No(s). 1954-1955 of 2022