JUDGMENT - I.G. SHAH, J.:---Original complainant in Criminal Case No. 6373 of 1977 on the file of J.M.F.C. Solapur has filed this appeal after being granted leave to appeal to challenge the order of acquittal of accused Nos. 1 and 2 of the offences punishable under section 494 r.w. 34 and 495, 496 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code.

2. Briefly stated the facts giving rise to this appeal are as under :---

The present appellant filed a private complaint against the present respondents Nos. 1 and 2 (Original Accused) contending that the accused No. 1 is a police constable residing at Solapur and the accused No. 2 is his mother; that the complainant was unmarried and the accused No. 1 pretended to marry her and thereafter their engagement took place at Solapur ; that the complainant is the only daughter of her presents and therefore the estate of her parents was with her and she had cash of Rs. 10,000/- in her account in post office and she also had some gold ; that with the intention to exploite the complainant, the accused No. 1 told her that he would marry her and accordingly he married her according to Hindu rites at Gangapur in the month of Ashad in the year 1963 ; that after the mar

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