JUDGMENT :

ANANYA BANDYOPADHYAY, J.

1. This appeal is preferred against the judgment and order dated 04.09.2001 passed by the Learned Additional Sessions Judge, Cooch Behar in Sessions Trial No. 4(6) of 2000 arising out of Sessions Case No. 37 of 1991 convicting the appellant under Sections 307/323/324 of the Indian Penal Code and sentencing him to suffer rigorous imprisonment for 5 years and to pay a fine of Rs. 2500/- in default to suffer simple imprisonment for 1 year for the offence punishable under Section 307 of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced to suffer rigorous imprisonment for 1 year and also to pay a fine of Rs. 1000/- in default to suffer simple imprisonment for 6 months for the offence punishable under Section 324 of the Indian Penal Code and further sentenced to suffer rigorous imprisonment for 6 months and also to pay a fine of Rs. 500/- in default to suffer simple imprisonment for 3 months for the offence punishable under Section 323 of the Indian Penal Code and all the sentences will run concurrently.

2. The prosecution case emanated on the basis of a complaint which inter-alia stated that on 15.03.1988 at about 3 P.M. when the complainant was cleaning the courtyard