ORDER

1. This appeal arises out of the following facts:

2. At about 10.00 a.m. on the 30th August 1984 the prosecutrix (PW.1) had gone to relieve herself and as she was returning home, she was waylaid by the Appellants who carried her to a nearby field and thereafter raped her and while leaving threatened her with dire consequences if she revealed what had happened to anyone. She however returned home and told her parents about the rape. Accompanied by her parents she then went to the police outpost at Pathriya to lodge a report but no police official was found present therein. A report was then lodged the next day at about 12.15 p.m. by PW.1 at Sironj Police Station about 22 k.m. away from the place of incident though the police station of village Kasbatal was Unarasital only 7 k.m. away.... The prosecutrix was accordingly sent for her medical examination to the hospital at Vasoda. Information was also sent to police Station Unarasital along with the medical examination report Ex. P.A. and the subsequent investigation was conducted by the police of police station Unarasital who seized the petticoat of the prosecutrix and sent it for examination.

3. On the completion of the investigat