New Delhi [India], September 24 (ANI): The Delhi High Court has underscored that the testimony of a child victim of sexual assault, if consistent and natural, requires no mechanical corroboration and can form the sole basis for conviction.

Justice Sanjeev Narula observed that "minor inconsistencies in the narration of a child cannot dilute the essence of her account," particularly when scientific evidence such as DNA profiling corroborates her version.

The Court was hearing an appeal against conviction under Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and Section 376(2) IPC.

The trial court had sentenced a person to ten years' rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl, his neighbour.

Rejecting the appellant's argument that contrad

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