JUDGMENT :

A.M. Badar, J.

1. On 22nd December 2018, this Court (Coram: N.J. Jamadar, J.) was pleased to direct issuance of bailable warrant against the appellant/accused No. 1. In pursuant to this Order, bailable warrant was executed and that is how the appellant/accused No. 1 is present before this Court. This is how his appeal was required to be taken for final hearing.

2. By this appeal, the appellant/accused No. 1 is challenging the Judgment and Order dated 14.11.1997 passed by the learned Sessions Judge, Ratnagiri in Sessions Case No. 11 of 1996 thereby convicting the appellant/accused No. 1 of the offences punishable under Sections 306 and 498-A of the Indian Penal Code. For the offence punishable under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code, the appellant/accused No. 1 is sentenced to suffer rigorous imprisonment for two years apart from imposition of fine of Rs. 200/- and default sentence of rigorous imprisonment for two months. For the offence punishable under Section 498-A of the Indian Penal Code, he is sentenced to suffer rigorous imprisonment for six months apart from imposition of fine of Rs. 100/- and default sentence of rigorous imprisonment for one month. The learned tr