JUDGMENT

Tirthankar Ghosh, J. - Affidavit filed on behalf of the appellant be kept with the record. The present appeal has been preferred against the judgment and order of conviction and sentence dated 23.06.2015 and 24.06.2015 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Fast Track Court No.1, Barrackpore, North 24 Parganas in connection with the Sessions Case No. 10(7)08 corresponding to Sessions Trial No. 7(3)09, thereby holding the appellant guilty and convicting him for commission of offence punishable under Sections 417/376 of the Indian Penal Code. The learned Court thereafter sentenced the appellant to suffer rigorous imprisonment for seven years and to pay a fine of Rs.5,000/- i.d. further RI of two years for the offence under Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code and RI for one year and fine of Rs.1,000/- i.d. to suffer RI for one month for the offence punishable under Section 417 of Indian Penal Code.

2. Prosecution case in brief is that one Minati Gurung informed the Officer-in-charge, P.S. Nimta to the effect that her youngest daughter (the victim) had a relationship with the appellant (Dilip Das), the youngest son of Nepal Das and they had an affair. The informant f