JUDGMENT :

1. This appeal arise out of the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 18-04-2019 passed by the Special Judge (POCSO Act), Katghora, in Special Criminal (POCSO) Case No.09/2018 whereby the appellant has been convicted and sentenced in the following manner with a direction to run all the substantive jail sentences concurrently :-

2. Brief facts of the case are that, the prosecutrix (PW-1) has lodged a written report to the Police Station Dipka on 04-03-2018 against the appellant with the allegation that in the intervening night of 03-03-2018 and 04-03-2018 at about 1:00 a.m. when she had gone to bathroom situated at the courtyard, the appellant jumped inside from the boundary wall, caught her hold from backside, laid her down on the ground and committed rape upon her after removing her clothes. At that time she shouted, then her mother came there and then the app