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THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA
G BASAVARAJA
RAMLAKHAN YADAV – Appellant
Versus
THE STATE OF KARNATAKA – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
G. BASAVARAJA, J.
1. The appellant/accused has preferred this appeal against the judgment and conviction and order on sentence passed by the FTSC-I Addl. City Civil and Sessions Judge, Bengaluru in Spl.C.No. 1659/2022 dated 05.02.2024.
2. For the sake of convenience, the parties herein are referred to as per their status before the trial Court.
3. The brief facts leading to this appeal are that the Police Inspector of Nandini Layout Police Station filed a charge sheet against the accused for the offences punishable under Sections 4(2), 5(m), 6, and 8 of the POCSO Act, 2012. It is alleged by the prosecution that the victim, aged 6 years, is the daughter of CWs 1 and 5, and they were residing in Rajagopalanagar. CW5, the father of the victim, was running Sree Sai Fab Welding Shop in his building, where the appellant/accused was working under him and used to speak to CW5’s children. On 09.05.2022, at about 1.30 p.m., the accused took CW2, the victim girl, to the shop of CW6, where he purchased some snacks for her, and from there he took her to House No. 12, situated in 1st Cross, 1st Main, Lakshmidevi Nagar, Cauvery Nagar, Nandini Layout. There, he made the victim lie down, und
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