AGARTALA, India, March 11 -- Tripura High Court issued the following order/judgement on Feb. 10:
1. This present appeal under Section 374 of the Criminal Procedure Code 1973 has been filed against the order of conviction and sentence passed by learned Special Judge (POCSO), in Case No. SPECIAL (POCSO) 38/2019 vide Judgment dated 22.03.2023 which learned Trial Court convicted and sentenced the appellant-petitioner to suffer RI for 20 (Twenty) years and to pay fine of Rs. 30,000/- only under Section-6 of the POCSO Act, in default of payment of fine, the convict shall suffer simple imprisonment(SI) for further six months
2. The brief fact of this case is that on 20.07.2019, at about 11.30 hours, while the informant was engaged in cooking in...