JUDGMENT

Rajiv Sharma, J. - The present appeal is instituted against judgment and order dated 20.10.2014, rendered by Additional Sessions Judge (I), Rohtak, in Sessions Case No. 129 of 2013, vide which appellant Hari Om @ Dhola was charged with and tried for the offence punishable under Sections 376- D, 452 IPC and Section 4 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (for short, the POCSO Act). He was convicted and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for twenty years and to pay a fine of Rs. 1,00,000/- for commission of offence punishable under Section 376-D IPC read with Section 4 of the POCSO Act and in default of payment of fine, to further undergo simple imprisonment for one year. He was also convicted and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for three years and to pay a fine of Rs. 5,000/- for commission of offence punishable under Section 452 IPC and in default of payment of fine, to further undergo simple imprisonment for three months. Both the sentences were ordered to run concurrently.

2. The case of the prosecution in a nutshell is that on 14.6.2013 Pawan Kumar had lodged a complaint with ASI Surender to the effect that he was married and res