ALEXANDER THOMAS, J.

1. The petitioner is the victim in the matter in SC No. 211 of 2018 on the file of the Additional Sessions Court (For the Trial of Cases Relating to Atrocities & Sexual Violence Against Women and Children), Ernakulam. The abovesaid Sessions Case arose out of Crime No. 1494/2017 of North Paravur Police Station, which has been registered for offences punishable under Secs. 363, 376(h)(n)(i), 506(i) of the IPC and Secs. 3(a) r/w 4, Sec. 5(j)(ii),(l), (q) r/w 6 of the POCSO Act and Sec. 3(2)(v) of the SC/ST(POA) Act. The 5th respondent herein is the sole accused in the abovesaid case.

2. The gist of the prosecution case is that when the victim who belongs to the Scheduled Caste was a minor aged about 17 years, she was repeatedly subjected to forced sexual intercourse and rape by the 5th respondent accused in a series of incidents and later she got pregnant and even thereafter the 5th respondent had subjected her to rape, etc. It is stated that the 5th respondent has extremely adverse criminal antecedents and he has been the accused in 9 other crimes, details of which are mentioned in paragraph No. 11 of the statement dated 3.4.2019 filed by the Investigatin