operations throughout the area. On 1st October, 2013, he prepared the spot panchnama (search panchnama). The said panchnama was exhibited by the prosecution as Exh. 34 and it bears the signatures of the witness (PW-16) and the complainant (PW-1) in addition to the panchas. The panchnama gives complainant specific having reference made to inquiries the from Premshankar Jayshankar Gupta at 10:45 A.M., Raju Pukraj Choudhari at 11:00 A.M., Jaybhim Channappa Kamble at 11:15 A.M. It also mentioned in the panchnama that the complainant made enquiries from Dipendrakumar Dhirendranath Shukla (PW-9) and Pradipkumar Ganesh Rawat (PW14) as well. The panchnama specifically records that all these persons had seen the child victim along with the dog in a time bound sequence commencing from 10:45 A.M. onwards. However, there is no whisper in 43 Criminal Appeal No(s). 1954-1955 of 2022