JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: The Criminal Appeal filed under Section 374(2) of Code of Criminal Procedure seeking to set aside the judgment passed against the appellant on 29.03.2021 in Spl.S.C.No.07 of 2020 on the file of the Special Court under POCSO Act, Nagapattinam and acquit him for all the charges.)

1. This criminal appeal has been filed against the judgment of conviction dated 29.03.2021 passed in Spl.S.C.No.07 of 2020 by the learned Sessions Judge, the Special Court under POCSO Act, Nagapattinam.

2 The respondent police registered a case in Cr.No.10 of 2019 against the appellant for the offence under Sections 9(f),(m),(l),(p) of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (in short “the POCSO Act) and 506(i) of IPC. After completing investigation, the respondent police laid a charge sheet before the learned Sessions Judge, Special Court under POCSO Act, Nagapattinam, which was taken on file in Spl.S.C.No.07 of 2020. The learned Sessions Judge after hearing both the accused and the prosecution and after perusing the records, since there is prima facie case, framed charges against the appellant/accused for the offence under Section 9(f), (m), (l), (p) of the POCSO Act and Sect