JUDGMENT :

1. This appeal has been preferred against the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 30.09.2003 passed by the Court of Additional District and Sessions Judge, Fast Track Court-IV, Bokaro, in S.T. No.131 of 2002, by which the sole appellant Satish Mandal was convicted for the offences punishable under Sections 307 and 504 of the IPC and he was sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for seven years for the offence punishable under Section 307 of the IPC and imprisonment of one year for the offence punishable under Section 504 of the IPC and both the sentences were directed to run concurrently.

2. The prosecution case has arisen on the basis of the fardbeyan of Bhim Mandal, son of Ratu Mandal of village Narayanpur, P.S. Pindrajora in the district of Bokaro. The informant Bhim Mandal alleged in the said fardbeyan that on 12.09.2001 at about 7:30 am in the morning, Smt. Tuku Devi, wife of the sole appellant Satish Mandal was plucking the ladyfinger (vindi) in the field of the informant. Thereupon the wife of the informant intercepted her and asked her as to why she was plucking the said vegetable vindi from her bari (Agriculture Field) and both the wife of the i