JUDGMENT :

Sanjay K. Agrawal, J.

1. The appellant herein namely Shekhar Korram has been awarded with death sentence by the learned Additional Sessions Judge (Fast Track Special Court – POCSO), Rajnandgaon in Special Criminal (POCSO) Case No.50/2020 vide judgment dated 13-9-2021 after having found him guilty for offence punishable under Sections 363, 366, 302 of the IPC and Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (for short, ‘the POCSO Act’) and also under Section 201 of the IPC. He has been sentenced to death by hanging under sub-section (5) of Section 354 of the CrPC. Conviction and sentences imposed upon the appellant are as follows:-