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Calcutta High Court:<\/b> A Division Bench of Abhijit Gangopadhyay and Joymalya Bagchi, JJ. allowed an appeal and set aside the conviction and sentence of a stepfather (hereinafter \u201cappellant\u201d) accused of sexually assaulting his minor daughter.<\/p>\n

The appellant had been charged with raping his stepdaughter aged around 13 years twice in duration of 4 weeks. The chargesheet was filed and charges were framed under Section 354 (assault or criminal intent to a woman with intent to outrage her modesty) of the Penal Code, 1860 and under Section 5 and 6 of the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012. The trial Court convicted the appellant for the offence punishable under Section 5(n) of the POCSO Act and sentenced him to rigorous imprisonment for life and pay a fine of Rs 50,000. Appellant-accused filed an appeal against this order.<\/p>\n

The counsels for the appellant \u00a0Deep Chaim Kabir and R. Arul Peter argued that the alleged incidents were false as the statements of the victim were highly unreliable and contradictory in nature. The incident of outraging the modesty of the victim was not confirmed by her uncle (prosecution witness) in whose house she allegedly took refuge after the incident. There were a lot of inconsistencies in the statements mentioned by the victim. It was also submitted that seizure of incriminating articles like a used condom and sanitary napkins were from a public place which was accessible to all. No forensic evidence to connect incriminating articles with appellant.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The learned counsel appearing for the State A.S. Zinu argued that evidence of a minor victim of sexual assault must be treated with due sensitivity and care as the appellant is accused of the heinous crime of rape. Also, he contended that the appellant had fiduciary control over victim and this lead to delay in lodging the FIR. The medical report showed that the victim\u2019s hymen was ruptured which indicated rape. The victim herself pointed out the place where the incident had occurred and incriminating articles were found. Her statements were supported by the testimonies of the witnesses and in view of the statutory presumption under Section 29 of the POCSO Act prosecution\u2019s case was well established.<\/p>\n

The Court was of the opinion that the evidence led by the prosecution to establish the primary facts was inconsistent. One part of the prosecution case improbabilities the other part to such an extent that no man of reasonable prudence would accept the version as coming from the witnesses. Hence, the factual matrix of the case did not call for invocation of statutory presumption under POCSO Act to convict the appellant on charges levelled against him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In light of the aforesaid discussion, the Court held that conviction and sentence of appellant under Section 5(n) read with Section 6 of Act was liable to be set aside. The appeal was allowed and appellant was directed to be released from custody upon furnishing a bond to the satisfaction of the learned trial court which shall remain in force for a period of six months in terms of Section 437A of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.\u00a0<\/span>[Subrata Biswas v. State, 2019 SCC OnLine Cal 1815<\/b><\/a>, decided on 11-06-2019]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Muralidhar and Vinod Goel, JJ. dismissed a criminal appeal filed against the judgment of the trial court whereby the appellant was convicted under Section 6 read with Section 5(m) and (n) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Case Briefs"","block_context":{"text":"Case Briefs","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/category\/casebriefs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":242785,"url":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2021\/01\/25\/bombay-hc-on-sexual-assault-would-pressing-of-breast-and-attempt-to-remove-salwar-of-a-child-fall-under-s-7-and-punishable-under-s-8-of-pocso-act\/","url_meta":{"origin":217124,"position":5},"title":"[Reversed] Bombay HC on Sexual Assault | Would \u2018pressing of breast\u2019 and \u2018attempt to remove salwar\u2019 of a child fall under S. 7 and punishable under S. 8 of POCSO Act?","author":"Bhumika Indulia","date":"January 25, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"UPDATE: This Judgment of the Bombay High Court has now been reversed by a 3-Judge Bench of the Supreme Court of India after the matter was mentioned by the Attorney General for India and appeals were filed by the State of Maharashtra and the National Commission for Women. 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