GANGTOK, India, June 25 -- Sikkim High Court issued the following judgment/order on June 4:
1. The only challenge in the instant Appeal is to the sentence meted out to the Appellant, which was for a period of twenty years each, under Sections 5(l) and 5(j) punishable under Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, as amended in 2019 (hereinafter, "POCSO Act"), vide the impugned Order on Sentence dated 08-09-2023.
2. Learned Counsel for the Appellant submits that, the FIR Exbt-9 was lodged on 26-02-2020 and the child was delivered by the victim of sexual assault, on 30-03-2020. If the dates are computed backwards it is evident that the child was conceived in the month of July, 2019. That, such a circumstance w...