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K. SURENDER, E. V. VENUGOPAL
Mohammad Dastagir Khan alias Asif – Appellant
Versus
State of Telangana – Respondent
JUDGMENT
K. Surender, J.—This appeal has been filed by the appellant/accused, aggrieved by the judgment dated 27.6.2019 in SC PCS No. 70 of 2018 passed by the learned I Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge-cum-Special Judge for Trial of Cases under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (for short ‘the Act’). The appellant was convicted under Section 6 of the POCSO Act, 2012, and Sections 364, 377, 302, and 201 of IPC, and was sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment along with a fine of Rs. 1,000/-.
2. Briefly, the facts of the case are that on 29.6.2017, a complaint was filed by PW1 stating that his younger son, who was around 10 years old at the time, had been missing from his home since 28.6.2017 without any information. Upon receipt of the complaint, PW12 registered a case in Cr. No. 152 of 2017 under Section 363 of IPC and issued a FIR.
3. On 5.7.2017, it was found that the CCTV camera near Badi Masjid, Barkas, had recorded visuals of the missing boy on 28.6.2017 in the company of one person, later identified as the appellant herein. Inquiries revealed that the appellant was a minor at the time. Subsequently, on 6.7.2017, PW12 and other police personnel we
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