CAV Judgment

This appeal is directed against the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 21.8.2003 passed by the Sessions Judge, Rajnandgaon in ST No.48/2003 whereby the appellant stands convicted and sentenced as under:

All the sentences were directed to run concurrently.

02. Case of the prosecution, in brief, is that the appellant is a distant relative Kaka (uncle) of the prosecutrix, a student of class-X, and he used to frequently visit her house and say that he is in love with her and wants to marry her, to which she would not react and also could not complain to her parents out of hesitation. On 16.2.2003 while the prosecutrix was going to attend tuition class, on the way the appellant met her and asked her to elope with him right now. On this, when the prosecutrix refused, he threatened her of being defamed in the society and get her kidnapped. She got frightened and then the accused/appellant took her to Bailapasra Bus Stand and from there to Nagpur by bus. Thereafter, she was tak