It is crystal clear, by my assessment, that the totality of pieces of evidence adduced on the record by the prosecution witnesses, which was not impeached under cross-examination, corroborated the confession made by the Defendant in Exhibit P3. Now, I am not unmindful that the Defendant, in her testimony, attempted to retract her confessional statement. She was shown Exhibits P3 and P3A and she confirmed that it was her statement. She however claimed that the ICPC officer who interviewed her dictated to her what she wrote in her statement and to own up to the offence; and that she was promised to be released to go and see her doctor if she wrote whatever she was asked to write. 40

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