PRADEEP NANDRAJOG, J.

1. The appellant Pappu was charged with having forcible sexual intercourse, for over a month, with his minor daughter aged 13 years; and not to disclose her identity I would be referring to the victim by a pseudo name : Ujjala, because her identity has not to be disclosed and I do not intend to reduce the helpless victim to a letter.

2. Notwithstanding the star witnesses, including Ujjala, turning hostile and which in the Indian environment is to be expected because a helpless family would reconcile with the circumstance of dependence and a minor daughter, barely into her teens, would succumb to family pressure; which in turn would be influenced by societal pressures, conviction has been returned on the basis of FSL report Ex.PW-10/A and Ex.PW-10/B.

3. It all started when DD No.27A, Ex.PW-11/A was recorded at P.S.Shahbad Dairy at 6.40 P.M. to the effect that a 13 years old girl had confided to her maternal grand-mother that her father had raped her, which information was conveyed by the police control room to the duty officer at the police station a