JUDGMENT

conviction and sentence passed by the learned Principal Sessions Judge (Mahila Court), Pudukkottai, made in Special Session Case No.28 of 2018 dated 03.08.2019.)

R. Subramanian, J. & N. Sathish Kumar, J.

1. Aggrieved over the life sentence imposed by the learned Principal Sessions Judge (Mahila Court), Pudukkottai, under Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, by Judgment dated 03.08.2019 in Special Session Case No.28 of 2018, the present appeal came to be filed by the appellant.

2. The brief facts of the prosecution is as follows:

(i) P.W.1 is the elder sister of P.W.2. P.W.2 is the mother of P.W.3, who is the victim child. After marriage, P.W.2 was residing in the joint family along with her mother-in-law, father-in-law, sister-in-law and brother of her mother-in-law in the matrimonial home along with her daughter-P.W. 3, the victim child. P.W.2's husband was working in abroad. On 03.09.2018, P.W.3 victim child complained a pain in her private parts to P.W.2. P.W.2 suspecting that there was some infections, gave water with sugar. P.W.3 also informed that the accused took her to his room tied her hands and legs in the night hours and repeate