JUDGMENT :

Ananya Bandyopadhyay, J.

1. This appeal is preferred against the judgment and order of conviction dated 28.01.2010 and 29.01.2010 passed by the Learned Additional Sessions Judge, Katwa in Sessions Trial No. 41 of 2009 arising out of the Sessions Case No. 52 of 2008 convicting the appellant under Sections 498A/306 of the Indian Penal Code and sentencing him to suffer rigorous imprisonment for 2 years and to pay a fine of Rs.500/-in default to suffer simple imprisonment for 3 months more for the offence punishable under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code and also to suffer rigorous imprisonment for 5 years and to pay a fine of Rs.2000/- in default to suffer simple imprisonment for 6 months for the offence punishable under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code with a direction about both the sentences to run concurrently.

2. The prosecution case emanated on the basis of a complaint which inter alia stating that on 24.01.2006 the informant (PW-1) gave her daughter Shrabani in marriage to accused Biswajit Samanta and the said marriage was solemnized according to the Hindu Rites and Customs. Soon after marriage Shrabani was subjected to both physical and mental torture. Shraban