Penal Code, 1860–Secs. 302 & 365 r/w. 120-B–Conviction–Appellant S lured away from the child victim in the late hours of the night–Dead body was found lying beside the village pond–Victim was lastly seen in the company of appellant S–Burden was on him to explain that how the deceased sustained the fatal injury on his neck–All the recovered articles gave the test of the presence of blood of group B–It can be inferred that he tried to force upon the child to satisfy his lust for unnatural intercourse, the child must have shouted upon which he paniked and slit his neck with the knife–Injuries of the neck were the cause of death–S was rightly sentenced with the punishment of life imprisonment.
