The Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a man found guilty of aggravated sexual assault on a 4-year-old girl, rejecting his plea for acquittal based on the absence of medical evidence and eyewitness testimony, holding that the consistent and credible evidence of the child's parents was sufficient to sustain the conviction.

“It may be true that Dr. Priyanka Toppo (PW-6) did not find external injury marks on the victim's body and stated that there was no bleeding of any kind... It is well settled that the medical evidence will take a backseat and even if do not corroborate with the ocular evidence, where the ocular evidence is consistent and cogent, the later would be allowed to prevail.” , observed a bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and NV Anjaria adding that the trauma-filled behavio

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