ORDER :

1. This Criminal Appeal has been filed against the Judgment passed in Spl.S.C.No.54/2016 by the learned Sessions Judge Fast Track Mahila Court, Krishnagiri dated 20.11.2018.

2. The respondent-Police registered a case against the appellant in Crime No.17 of 2016 for the offences under Sections 450 IPC, 5(l) and 6 of POCSO Act, 2012. After the investigation, a charge sheet was filed and the same was taken on file in Spl.S.C.No.54 of 2016, on the file of the Fast Track Mahila Court, Krishnagiri.

3. In order to prove the case of the prosecution, during the course of investigation, 13 witnesses were examined as PW1 to PW13 and 19 documents were marked as Exs.P1 to P19. After completing the examination of the prosecution witnesses, when the accused was questioned under Section 313 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 with regard to incriminating materials available in the evidence against him, he denied his complicity in the crime and on the side of the defence, neither witness was examined nor any document was produced.

4. The learned Sessions Judge, Krishnagiri, after completion of the trial, convicted the appellant and sentenced him to undergo 5 years rigorous imprisonment for