2025:CGHC:56308 NAFR The date when The date when The date when the the judgment the judgment is judgment is uploaded on is reserved pronounced the website Operative Full

20.08.2025 19.11.2025 -- 20.11.2025 HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR Judgment reserved on: 20.08.2025 Judgment delivered on: 19.11.2025 CRA No. 636 of 2007

1 - Rajkumar @ Bhogaoo, S/o Harishankar, Aged about 18 years R/o Gram Chattarpur, Uperpara, Kalyanpur, P.S. Gandhi Nagar, Distt.

Surguja, C.G.

... Appellant versus

1 - State of Chhattisgarh through District- Magistrate, District- Sarguja (C.G.).

... Respondent(s)

Hon’ble Smt. Justice Rajani Dubey

C A V Judgment

1. The present appeal under Section 374(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure has been filed against the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 30.06.2007 passed by the learned Special Sessions Judge (Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes) / Additional Sessions Judge, Ambikapur, Sarguja (C.G.) in Sessions Trial No. 123/2006, whereby the learned trial Court has convicted the appellant and sentenced him as under:-

2. Brief facts of the case are that on 26.09.2006, at about 3:00 PM, the prosecutrix, along with her elder sister, had gone to a field in V