JUDGMENT :

Ananya Bandyopadhyay, J.

1. This appeal is preferred against the judgment and order of conviction dated 14.06.2001 passed by the Learned Additional Sessions Judge, Islampur, District – Uttar Dinajpur in Sessions Trial No. 31 of 2000 arising out of Sessions Case No. 76 of 1999 under Sections 498A/306 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and sentencing to suffer rigorous imprisonment for 3 years under Section 498A of IPC and to suffer rigorous imprisonment for 3 years under Section 306 of IPC and both sentence will run concurrently.

2. The prosecution case emanated on the basis of a complaint lodged by one Nazrul Islam, inter alia, stating that his eldest daughter was married to the appellant no. 1 about one and a half years ago and the married couple resided at the house of his son-in-law at Berhangaon. His daughter used to be physically and mentally tortured after her marriage and by virtue of such torture, the complainant was propelled to implore his son-in-law to desist himself from such torture. On 06.09.1996 at 11:00 am, the complainant was informed by one Akhtar, the resident of Berhangaon, that his daughter had been admitted at Islampur Hospital and the complainant, on reac