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"29. Likewise, delay of three days in lodging the FIR by PW-1, after eliciting the information from her daughter PW-2, is inconsequential in the facts of this case. It is not to be forgotten that the person accused by the prosecutrix was none else than her Uncle. It is not easy to lodge a complaint of this nature exposing the prosecutrix to the risk of social stigma which unfortunately still prevails in our society. A decision to lodge FIR becomes more difficult and hard when accused happens to be a family member. In fact, incestuous abuse is still regarded as a taboo to be discussed in public. This reticence hurts the victims or other family members who struggle to report. After all, in such a situation, not only the honour of the family is at stake, it may antagonize other relations as well, as in the first blush, such other members of family would not take charge of this nature very kindly. We also find that the so-called dispute between the parties was so trivial in nature that it would not have prompted PW-1 to lodge a false complaint, putting her minor daughter of impressionable age to risks of serious kinds, as pointed out above.