JUDGMENT :

P.N.Prakash, G.Jayachandran, JJ.

PRAYER: Criminal Appeal is filed under Section 374 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, to call for the entire records connected with the judgment rendered by the Sessions Judge, Fast Track Mahila Court, Dindigul, in Special S.C.No.60 of 2018, dated 22.08.2019 and set aside the same and consequently acquit the appellant.

This appeal is preferred by the convict, who was tried as an adult and sentenced to undergo life imprisonment though he was juvenile at the time of alleged occurrence.

2. The case of the prosecution is that on 14.12.2017 at about 10.00 a.m., 4 years old girl child while walking along with her maternal grand-mother Kumarakkal along the Komberipatti to Semanampatti road, the appellant who was a juvenile at that point of time followed them and had offered lift to them in his two-wheeler bearing registration No.TN-57- AV-1765. He has taken them in his two-wheeler upto the house of Kumarakkal. He told her that he will drop the minor girl at Balwadi but taken her to the graveyard near a hill and committed aggravated sexual as