JUDGMENT

1. The appellant Profulla Kumar Bose has been convicted by the Sessions Judge of Sylhet u/s 366, I.P.C., and has been sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for 18 months and to pay a fine of Rs. 1,200, or in default to undergo rigorous imprisonment for 18 months more. The fine has been ordered to be paid as compensation; to the father of the girl in respect of whom the offence has been found to have been committed. The trial was held with the aid of a jury on charges under Sections 366, 368 and 376, I.P.C. The jury were unanimous in their verdict. They found the appellant not guilty u/s 376, I.P.C. They held that he was guilty u/s 366, LP. C, finding that-the girl had been kidnapped, the seduction having taken place before the girl left her father's place They held that in the circumstances the offence u/s 368, I.P.C., did not arise.

2. The story needs no recounting. It is set out in all its harrowing details in the voluminous charge which the learned Judge delivered and which purports to deal with every point in controversy with all the evidence bearing on it and from all conceivable view points. Put in a nutshell, the story is that the appellant who was an Assistant S