occurred nearly two years ago when she was 15 years of age. She had gone to ease herself at 7:00 in the evening alone. The accused, Awadhesh Kumar, this appellant and Chunnu Kumar Singh forcibly put clothes in her mouth, caught her and took her to a nearby paddy field. Chunnu Kumar Singh raped her first and thereafter accused Awadhesh Kumar raped her. Thereafter this appellant told her that he would also be raping her and took her from there to a banana orchard and raped her. From the banana orchard, he brought her to his house, where he kept her for two nights and one day. There also, all three raped her. Subsequently, they dropped her at the same place from where she was lifted by them. After returning to her house, she narrated the occurrence to his mother and brother. After learning about the occurrence, the informant’s mother (P.W.-9) and his brother went to the accused, Niranjan Singh, father of the appellant, to make a complaint. Niranjan Singh abused her mother, taking her caste name and forcing her to leave the place. An attempt was made to convene a Panchayati, but the Panchas did nothing. In her crossexamination, she further deposed that the three accused persons had raped her one by one, and when one person was committing rape on her, the other two were just standing there. She also deposed that they had physically assaulted her also, because of
