for discarding the case of threat administered to PW-1 and PW-3 can be summarized as follows: (a) On 2nd May 1997, PW-1 deposed that the accused were in jail for 1½ years; (b) After a long gap of 01 year and 09 months, on 5th February 1999, for the first time, she came out with a case that threats were administered by the accused way back in May 1997; CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. 467/2024 6(c) Notwithstanding the statement of PW-1 in her application dated 5th February 1999 and the affidavit filed in support thereof on the same day, the Police made no investigation into the allegation made by PW-1; and (d) Though on 5th February 1999, PW-1 claimed that the accused had threatened to kill PW-3, in his evidence recorded on 19th December 1998, PW-3 did not depose anything about the threat administered to him. 11. What is more material is that PW-1 specifically stated after her recall that a threat was administered to her by the Police as she did not support the prosecution in her earlier evidence.