IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED: 16-12-2025

CORAM

THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE SUNDER MOHAN

Jayakumar

Appellant(s)

Vs

The State by

Inspector of Police,

Namagiripettai Police Station,

Namakkal District

Crime No.159 of 2015.

Respondent(s)

PRAYER:Criminal Appeal filed under Section 374 (2) Cr.P.C., to set aside the conviction and sentence imposed on the appellant by the judgment dated 09.03.2021 passed in Special SC.No.23/2018 on the file of the Mahalir Neethi

Mandram (Fast Track Mahila Court), Namakkal.

For Appellant(s): Mr.M.Karthik

For Respondent(s): Mr.S.Rajakumar

Additional Public Prosecutor

JUDGMENT

This appeal has been filed challenging the conviction and sentence

imposed on the appellant vide judgment passed on 09.03.2021, in Spl.C.C.No.23 of 2018, on the file of the learned Sessions Judge, Sessions

Court (Fast Track Mahila Court) Namakkal.

2.The case of the prosecution is that on 25.05.2015 at about 4:00 p.m.,

when the victim girl who was the neighbour of the appellant went to attend

nature's call in a vacant land, the appellant hugged and kissed her with sexual intention; that one Chinrasu, who was then a Juvenile had photographed the said incident; that the appellant threatened that