Appeal from the judgment and order dated the May 31, 1963 of the Punjab High Court in Criminal Appeal No.
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Criminal Appeal No, 54 of 1964.
Dipak Dutt Chaudhuri and R. N. Sachthey, for the appellant.
Hence this appeal by the State.
Sarkar, CJ.
1023 of 1962.
The question is whether the respondent who caused injury to the private parts of a female child of seven and half months is guilty under s. 354 of the Penal Code of the offence of outraging the modesty of a woman.
S. R. Chari, for the respondent.
In the High Court, the matter was heard by three learned Judges two of whom answered the question in the negative and, the third answered it in the affirmative.
The following Judgments of the Court were delivered.
