JUDGMENT :

1. Aggrieved by the judgment and order of conviction passed by the learned Special Judge (POCSO Act), Aurangabad dated 15-10-2020 in Special Case Child Prot.No.168 of 2017 recording guilt of the appellants for offence punishable under Sections 376(2)(f)(n) r/w 34, 506 r/w 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and under Sections 4, 6 and 8 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO Act), original accused has preferred instant appeal.

BRIEF CASE OF PROSECUTION IN TRIAL COURT

2. Victim, who was studying in 6th standard was noticed crying in the class on 07-09-2017. Her teacher PW1 Wankhede made enquiry as to why she is crying. Victim narrated that she was residing with her maternal uncle as she has no parents. She narrated that accused persons were forcing her to do all household work and when she failed to do so, they kept her starving. They used to make her sleep in washroom. She also narrated that when nobody was in the house, at that time, accused Sudhir and accused Santosh used to strip her, move their hands on her body, private parts. They used to threaten her not to disclose such act to anyone. When she reported to her aunt accused no.3, she used to threa