This Court has, however, noticed a disturbing feature. It is found that in the present case, after report was lodged, the prosecutrix was sent for medical examination and vide exhibit P-9, clothes of prosecutrix as also vaginal slides and hair of the prosecutrix were seized by the investigating Officer on 13-03-2012. Seizure of clothes exhibit P-10, P-11 and P-12 were also made on 28-03-2012. The medical examination of the prosecutrix as well as of the appellant both was done on 28-03-2012 itself and report was also prepared by doctor on that very date. If that was so, this Court fails to understand why the articles from serial No. 1 to 6 (exhibit P-17) including clothes which were said to be blood stained, seminal stained were not sent immediately until 05-05-2012 for examination to the Assistant Surgeon, Community Health Centre, Lohandiguda. The doctor simply advised that these articles may be sent for forensic examination and thereafter the clothes mentioned from Serial No. 1 to 6 of memo dated 05-05-2012 exhibit P-17, along with vaginal slides and the hair of the private parts of the prosecutrix were forwarded from the Office of Police Superintendent of Police, Bastar to State Forensic Laboratory, Raipur vide memo dated 0505-2012. That means that vaginal slides and clothes which were collected up to 28-03-2012, were forwarded for forensic test after two months and 21 days. Exhibit P-19 shows that these articles were submitted in the office of FSL, Raipur on 05-05-2012. Thus, after almost three months of the seizure of stained clothes and collection of vaginal slides and hair, the articles reached the forensic lab. The record of the case does not contain report, if any, received from FSL. Therefore, this Court is at pains to record that in so far as forensic evidence is concerned, the investigating agency only performed the ritual with no serious efforts made to collect incriminating forensic evidence to support the case of the prosecution, irrespective of the fact that only on the basis of other evidence on record conviction is unassailable. This Court has taken notice of apathy and indifference in the matter sending various seized articles to the Forensic Lab by the Investigating Officer.
