prosecution line of the story, P.W.3, the independent shadow witness has narrated what had happened even in his chief-examination. According to him, the trap team went in a government vehicle to the office of the appellant, in which was also situated the office of the Executive Engineer, and that the vehicle was parked some 100 mtrs. from the said office, that he (P.W.3) had entered the said office a few minutes ahead of P.W.2, that P.W.2 entered the office, went inside, and before he (P.W.3) could follow P.W.2, the latter vanished, and later P.W.2 rushed out and he looked disturbed. Therefore, it was not P.W.2, but him (P.W.3) who signaled Thiru.Ali Basha, the DSP thinking that P.W.2 might have tendered the bribe money to the individual concerned. Based on his signal, the entire trap team entered the office and went right inside the room, picked up the appellant along with them. There he saw the money lying on the table. He further states that Thiru.Ali Basha had directed the appellant to take the money and put it in his pocket and thereafter hand it over to him. Promptly the prosecution treated P.W.3 as hostile. They have declared him hostile and crossexamined. But except confronting P.W.5 with his statement recorded under Sec.161(3) Cr.P.C., nothing came out of it. The evidence of P.W.3 was corroborated by P.W.4, the other shadow witness but he was not declared hostile.
