JUDGMENT :

This Criminal Appeal has been filed against the Judgment dated 08.04.2019 in Spl.S.C.No.40 of 2017 by the learned Sessions Judge Mahila Court, Cuddalore.

2. The case of the prosecution is that the appellant was in love with the victim girl/P.W.2, who was a minor studying 11th Standard. The father of the victim girl was working in Salem and her mother is a house wife. When the victim girl was studying 10th Standard, the appellant used to follow her regularly in person and over phone and developed intimacy with the victim girl. On 09.10.2015, when the victim girl's mother/P.W.1 went to hospital with her sister, the appellant came to the house of the victim girl and knocked the rear side door. When the victim opened the door and questioned the appellant, he informed her that he is going abroad and he would be back only after three years, hence, he wanted to talk to her and he tried to enter into the house. The victim girl refused him to enter into the house and the appellant pulled her nighty forcibly and pushed her on the floor and had sexual intercourse with her. When P.W.1 mother of the victim girl knocked the door, none opened the door and on seeing through the window, sh