deposition in Court remained in substantial conformity with her statement recorded under Section 164 Cr.P.C. The Court also observed that the disclosure made by the victim to her classmates and teachers was natural, and the sequence of reporting, from the classmates to the teachers, then to the principal, and finally to the police, formed a coherent and corroborated chain of events. The testimonies of the teachers and the principal, who were amongst the first recipients of the victim’s disclosure, were found to be mutually consistent and supportive of the prosecution case. The birth certificate and school records duly proved the victim’s age, establishing that she was a minor at the time of the occurrence. The defence plea of false implication by the victim’s mother was rightly rejected as a bald assertion unsupported by any credible evidence. The Court rightly held that in cases of this nature, independent eyewitnesses are rarely available and that the testimony of the child victim, if found credible, can be the sole basis for conviction. Based on the material produced, and keeping in mind the child victim’s consistent testimony attributing commission of the offence to the appellant, as well as the corroborative depositions of her teachers and the principal who were the first recipients of her disclosure, this Court concurs with the findings of the Trial Court and finds that no grounds to interfere with the impugned judgment are made out. Consequently, the conviction of the appellant is upheld qua the offence punishable under Section 6 POCSO. 6. The appellant has been produced through VC by Assistant Superintendent Om Prakash from Central Jail No. 04, Tihar, Delhi. The appellant submits that he is remorseful and that being fully aware of the consequences, he does not wish to press the present appeal on merits. He accepts his guilt and prays that he be released on the period already
