CAV JUDGMENT

(Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE BIBEK CHAUDHURI)

Date : 12-12-2025

1. The appellants along with four other accused persons faced trial in POCSO Case No. 23 of 2014, arising out of Nouhatta P. S. Case No. 173 of 2014 and the learned Additional Sessions Judge, 1st Court-cum-Special Judge, POCSO at Saharsa held the appellant and two other accused persons guilty for committing offence under Sections 341 , 323, 307/34 and 376(g)/34 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 6 of the POCSO Act . The appellants and the other accused persons were convicted and sentenced to suffer imprisonment for a term of one year with fine of Rs. 1,000/-, in default further imprisonment for one month, for committing offence under Section 323 of the IPC; simple imprisonment for one month for committing offence under 341 of the I.P.C.; rigorous imprisonment for 10 years with fine of Rs. 5,000/-, in default further imprisonment for three months for the offence under Section 307/34 of the I.P.C.; and imprisonment for life with fine of Rs. 50,000/- each, in default further imprisonment for one and a half years, for the offence under Section 6 of the POCSO Act .

2. The appellant, namely, Bijali Yadav @ Kamlesh