This is an appeal filed by the Government of Manipur against the judgment of acquittal dated 30-9-1964 of the respondent of the charges under Ss. 366 and 376 I. P. C. in Sessions Trial No. 12/1 of 1964 on the file of the Additional Sessions Judge, Manipur.

2. The case of the prosecution is that P. W. 3 a girl Yangambam Ningol Sumati Devi of Wangjing was aged about 14 years, that she was living in her sister's house in Takhelambam Leikai, that on 20-9-1963 she was brought by P. W. 1 her brother Yangambam Biren Singh in his jeep, that P. W. 2 (Ibemhal Devi) also accompanied her that in the evening of 20-9-1963, D. W. 1 the respondent, who was then working as a driver of a bus, which was plying from Wangjing to Imphal, offered to take the prosecutrix P. W. 3 (Sumati Devi) to Imphal in his bus on the next day and that as the respondent was familiar with the members of the family of P. W. 3 (Sumati Devi), her father agreed to send her in his bus. In the morning of 21-9-1963, the respondent brought his bus to the gate of the house of parents of P. W. 3 (Sumati Devi).P. Ws. 2 and 3 (Ibemhal Devi and Sumati Devi) got into the bus. After the bus proceeded to some distance, two pe