1. The case of the prosecution is that on 13.12.2007, the accused induced a minor girl by name Sowmya, aged about 14 years to come with him from her school and took her to an isolated place at Pemmanahalli Halla, committed sexual intercourse on her and thereafter caused her death by strangulating her with a towel, removed her earrings, slashed her neck with a razor and dropped a boulder on her face and thereafter concealed the dead-body beneath a bush and on the next day, poured acid on the face of the deceased with a view to cause disappearance of the evidence of murder, thereby committed the offences punishable under sections 366-A, 376, 302 & 201 Indian Penal Code.

2. On the basis of the complaint lodged by the father of the deceased (PW-1), on 16.12.2007 the PSI of Badavanahalli Police Station (PW-27) registered a case in Cr.No.16 of 2007 under Sections 302, 201 Indian Penal Code against five suspects named in the complaint. PW-30 the PSI took up the investigation, visited the spot, conducted the spot mahazar and inquest over the dead-body. He forwarded the dead-body for post-mortem examination and it was ascertained that the death was due to head injuries. Further inv