1.

This Criminal Appeal is filed by the appellant, being

aggrieved by the judgment and order of acquittal dated

29.02.2016 in Spl.Case No.79/2014 on the file of I Additional

District and Sessions Judge / Special Judge, Ramanagara,

wherein the Trial Court acquitted the accused for the offences

punishable Sections 341, 323, 354, 504, 509 of the Indian

Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’) and under Section 12 of the

Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (for short

‘POCSO Act’).

2.

The rank of the parties henceforth will be referred

as per their rankings in the Trial Court, for convenience.

Brief facts of the case:

3.

On 03.01.2014 at about 8.45 a.m., when PWs.1 to

3 were proceeding to college, the respondent/accused came on

a two-wheeler bearing its registration No.KA-42-Q-6692 by

whistling near the PWs.1 to 3 as if they will be dashed. PW.2

questioned about the rashness of his driving. Then, the

respondent assaulted her, being aggrieved by the act of the

respondent, PW.1 questioned about the assault, she had also

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been assaulted. The matter was pacified by the intervention of

the people who gathered around them. PWs.1 to 3 had been to

their college and info