therefore, it was absolutely justified on the part of the learned court below to rely upon such evidence. Apart from that, the confession of the Appellant as to the manner in which he caused the death of the victim receives corroboration from medical evidence. P.W. 9 is the M.O., who conducted the postmortem over the dead body of the victim, noticed multiple injuries on her body and at last had the opinion that her cause of death to be Asphyxia or Traumatic Asphyxia or combination of both and most probably it was due to throttling of neck and direct violence on the chest wall causing cardiac respiratory failure. P.W. 9 proved the P.M. report as Ext.4 and his signature thereon as Ext. 4/1. Of course, P.W. 9 did not find any sign of sexual violence but it is unlikely to demolish the entire of the claim. From the evidence, it appears that the deceased and the Appellant had been together for taking handia and during that time, the incident happened. Notwithstanding absence of any evidence regarding rape, the confession of the Appellant before P.W.8 narrating the manner in which the victim was assaulted received ample corroboration from the medical evidence led through P.W.9. That apart, the deceased was last seen in the company of the Appellant which was deposed by P.W.8, who appears to be a credible witness. In fact, in the night of the alleged occurrence, the Appellant was found to be with the deceased and thereafter, on the next day morning, her dead body was found lying near the spot and therefore, it was for the Appellant to explain as to what happened the previous night. Without doubt, the medical evidence conspicuously suggests that the victim had a homicidal death. In fact, having appreciated the evidence on record, the Court finds that all the
