Hon'ble Mrs. Ranjana Pandya, J.

1. Challenge in this appeal is to judgment and order passed by learned Additional Sessions Judge, Fast Track, Court No. 1, Bulandshahr dated 24.03.2015 in ST No. 456 of 2013 (State Vs. Kullu @ Deepak) arising out of Crime No. 186 of 2013 under Section 376 IPC, PS Khurja Nagar, Bulandshahr; whereby the accused appellant was found guilty under Section 376 IPC and was sentenced to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs.50,000/- with default stipulation.

2. Filtering out unnecessary details, the prosecution case as per the first information report is that Kapil, brother of the victim lodged a written report at the concerned police station on 14.03.2013 at 22:45 hours stating that on 14.03.2013, his sister aged about eight years was missing from the house since 6:00 PM. Then, the informant Kapil accompanied with Pravesh, Yogesh and Satish tried to trace the victim. When they reached near the bush of Dhakar Gate, they found the victim who was blood stained and saw accused appellant Kullu @ Deepak fleeing from the place. The appellant had raped the victim. The informant took his sister to police station and got lodged first information r