Judgment

1. The facts of this case are as under:

1.1. The prosecutrix, P.W.1, was studying in the Zila Parishad School at Mohali, District Gadchiroli. On the day of the incident, the accused met her and enquired as to how she had performed in the Mathematics paper in the examination. P.W.1 replied that she had not done too well on which the accused advised her to bring the question paper to his house. Tukaram, P.W.2, P.W.1's father told her to go along with her younger brother Kapil, P.W.3. The two, accordingly, went to the house of the accused which was near the school. They found that the accused was sitting outside his house and he directed them to go towards the school and told Kapil, to go out and bring some snacks from the shop of Naitram. Kapil, accordingly, left for the shop whereafter the accused held the hand of the prosecutrix and pushed her towards the verandah of the school and raped her. The shouts of alarm raised by the prosecutrix could not heard by any one on account of the operating loud speakers all around as it was the day of the Sharda Devi festival. The prosecutrix thereafter returned home and disclosed what had happened to her parents. A report was, accordingl