JUDGMENT :

1. This Criminal Appeal has been filed against the Judgment dated 29.08.2018 passed in Spl.C.C.No.3 of 2017 by the learned Sessions Judge (Fast Track Mahila Court) Namakkal.

2.The case of the prosecution is that the accused/appellant is a married man having two children. The victim girl was aged about 16 years at the time of occurrence. After completion of +2 examinations, the victim girl used to go for construction work along with her mother, where the appellant was working as a Maistry and the appellant used to contact the victim girl and proposed her to marry him, but, she has refused. However, the appellant regularly followed her and persisted his request for marriage. On 16.08.2016 at about 4.30 p.m., when the victim girl was standing at the bus stop, the appellant for the purpose of marriage enticed and kidnapped her from the lawful guardianship of natural guardians and took her in a motor cycle to Velampalayam and kept her in a rented house owned by one Murugesan (P.W.7). Thereafter, on 17.08.2016 the appellant married the victim girl and thereby, the accused has committed sexual intercourse with the victim girl from 17.08.2016 to 31.10.2016. Hence, a complaint has