JUDGMENT

1. The present appeal has been filed seeking setting aside the judgment dated 18th September, 2021 and the order on sentence dated 26th November, 2021, passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge (FTSC) (POCSO Act)-01, Central District, Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi, whereby the appellant was convicted for the offences punishable under Sections 342/363/376 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) and Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO).

2. The appellant was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for a period of twelve years for the conviction under Section 6 of the POCSO Act and three years rigorous imprisonment under Section 363 of the IPC and six months rigorous imprisonment under Section 342 of the IPC.

3. The brief facts of the case as set up by the prosecution are as follows:

3.1. The victim, a girl child of four and a half years, was playing in the street outside her house on 11th June, 2017. When the mother of the victim could not find the victim, she sent her husband, being the father of the victim, to look for her. The father of the victim reached the house of the appellant, who was their neighbour and knocked at the door which