ORDER :

Petitioner-accused No.2 has filed this petition being aggrieved by the orders passed by the Addl. District and Sessions Judge-FTSC -I , U.K., Karwar (Special Court for trial cases filed under POCSO Act) in Special Case No.53/2019 dated 4.8.2020 in so far as it relates to framing of charge against her under Section 19 and 21 of the POCSO Act.

2. The parties are referred to as per their ranking before the trial Court for the sake of convenience.

3. Brief facts as set out before the trial Court are stated hereunder:

A complaint came to be filed by a victim-girl on 4.7.2019 alleging that, she is a minor girl aged 17 years four months. She is a student. She is the resident of the address stated in the complaint. Her date of birth is 1.2.2000. She belongs to Scheduled Caste. It is alleged in the complaint that, accused no.1 is working as a waiter in a Hotel and he is resident of Thambettu Machettu Village in Kundapura Taluk. Victim girl came to know accused no.1 in the month of October 2018 through face book. Thus, accused no.1 is her face book friend. They both had a mobile and Both exchanged their mobile numbers. because of persistent force by the accused no.1 to provide her mobile