JUDGMENT

This Criminal Appeal is directed against the judgment and order of sentence dated 28.04.2015 passed by the learned District & Sessions Judge, Koppal in PCSO S.C. 13/2014, whereunder the appellant-accused No.1 was convicted and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for life till his last breath for the offences punishable u/s 376(2)(1), 376A and 376D and to pay a fine of Rs.1,000/- for each of the offences. He is also sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for life for the offence punishable u/s 302 of IPC and to pay a fine of Rs.1,000/-, he is also sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for ten years for the offence punishable u/s 6 of the POCSO Act 2012 (hereinafter called for short as ‘Act’).

2. The genesis of the case as per the contents of the complaint are that father of the victim-complainant had six daughters, deceased along with his another daughter by name Sangeetha and the victim used to go to the lands to cut and collect the grass for their cattle. In that light, on 06.05.2014 at about 1 p.m. the victim alone went to cut the grass for the cattle, thereafter till 4 p.m. she has not returned to the house, the complainant and his son by name Neelappa