JUDGMENT :

K. MURALI SHANKAR, J.

1. The Criminal Appeal is directed against the judgment of conviction passed in Spl. S.C. No. 18 of 2015, dated 06.04.2016 on the file of the learned Sessions Judge, Mahilar Court, Thiruchirappalli.

2. The Inspector of Police, All Women Police Station, Ponmalai, Trichy City, has laid the final report against the accused alleging that the victim and two other girls, who were the inmates of Annai Ashram, had left the Ashram on 06.05.2015 at 22.30 hours without informing anybody, that after visiting some places, they had reached the Villupuram Bus Stand on 10.05.2015 at 04.30 hours, that the accused after receiving phone call from the victim, came to Villupuram Bus Stand at 11.00 p.m. on 10.05.2015 and kidnapped her with intention to rape her, that the accused had taken the victim to Pasuvappatti Village of Chennimalai, Erode District and rented a house and stayed there till 29.05.2015, that the accused had sexual intercourse with the victim girl many times during the said period and that thereby, the accused is said to have committed the offences punishable under Section 366(A) IPC and under Section 5 (1) r/w 6 of Protection of Children from Sexual offen