JUDGMENT :

Puneet Gupta, J.

1. The appellant-Jarnail Singh on being convicted for the commission of offence under Section 376 RPC by the court of learned Principal Sessions Judge, Reasi has been sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for seven years and a fine of Rs. 25,000/-. The appellant is further directed to undergo imprisonment for six months in case of default in the payment of fine.

2. The complainant-prosecutrix submitted complaint before the Judicial Magistrate, Mahore on 01.07.2010 against the appellant-convict and the complaint was forwarded under Section 156(3) Cr.P.C. to SHO Police Station, Mahore. FIR No. 77/2010 under Section 376 RPC came to be registered with Police Station, Mahore on 01.7.2010 at about 7.15 p.m. The complaint is exhibited as EXPW-G and the F.I.R. is exhibited as EXTP-AZ. The allegation against the appellant is that the appellant is a teacher in a school and on 26.06.2010 the appellant had called the prosecutrix who was the student of 8th class of Middle School, Shikari to collect books from the residence of the appellant after the school time as the books were required to be distributed to the students. The accused is stated to have committed rap