JUDGMENT :

The case was heard through video conferencing. None of the parties found any flaws with audibility/visibility during the course of hearing the matter.

2. This appeal is preferred against the Judgment of Conviction dated 13.08.2004 and order of sentence dated 18.08.2004 passed by the learned Additional District & Sessions Judge, FTC No. III, Bokaro, in S.T. No.372 of 2003, arising out of B.S. City P.S. Case No.112 of 2003, corresponding to G.R. no.450 of 2003, whereby and where under, both the appellants namely Ram Nawal Prasad and Lalan Prasad (died during the pendency of this Appeal) were convicted under section 363 and 366 of IPC read with section 34 of IPC and further they were sentenced to undergo R.I. for 3 years under Section 363 of IPC and R.I. for 5 years for the offence under Section 366 of IPC read with Section 34 of IPC and both the sentences were directed to run concurrently.

3. Briefly stated the prosecution case was initiated by the victim aged about 15 years herself daughter of Ashok Kumar Singh, and in her written statement she disclosed that on 29.05.2003, while she was alone in her house, one Sunil Kumar Prasad including his father Ram Nawal Prasad and San