JUDGMENT :

ANANYA BANDYOPADHYAY, J.

1. This appeal is preferred against the judgment and order dated July 24, 1997 passed by the Learned Additional Sessions Judge, Second Court, Hooghly, in Sessions Trial No.107 of 1989, convicting the appellant under Sections 498A and 306 of the Indian Penal Code and sentencing him to suffer simple imprisonment for 4 (four) years and to pay a fine of Rs.2,000/-, in default, to suffer simple imprisonment for 1 (one) year for the offence under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code and simple imprisonment for one and a half year and to pay a fine of Rs.500/-, in default, to suffer simple imprisonment for three months for his commission of offence punishable under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code and both the sentences of imprisonment would run concurrently.

2. The complaint filed by the father of the victim namely Shri Ratan Kumar Sant precisely stated that his third daughter Asha had been romantically involved with the appellant Pinaki Gupta. The marriage between his daughter and the appellant was solemnized on 24.02.1988 at the Nistarini Devi Temple, Serampore in the presence of the complainant’s son and the priest of the temple, Dilip Mukherjee