JUDGMENT :

PUSHPA V. GANEDIWALA, J.

1. Heard Shri Sk. Sabahat Ullah, learned counsel for the petitioner and Shri Khan, learned APP for the respondent.

2. This is an appeal against the judgment and order dated 05.02.2020 in Special Child Protection Case No. 28 of 2017 passed by the Extra Joint Additional Sessions Judge, Nagpur, by which the appellant is convicted for the offence punishable under Sections 354, 363 and 342 of the Indian Penal Code (hereinafter referred to as IPC) and Section 8 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, (hereinafter referred to as POCSO Act), in Crime No. 405 of 2016 registered at Police Station Gittikhadan, Nagpur, District-Nagpur.

3. For the offence punishable under Section 8 of the POCSO Act read with Section 354 of the IPC, the appellant is sentenced to suffer R.I. for three years and to pay fine of Rs. 500/- in default of fine to suffer R.I. for one month.

For the offence punishable under Section 363 of the IPC, the appellant is sentenced to suffer R.I. for two years and to pay fine of Rs. 500/- in default of fine to suffer R.I. for one month.

For the offence punishable under Section 342 of the IPC, the appellant is sentenced to suffe