JUDGMENT :

SUBHASH CHAND, J.

1. This Criminal Appeal has been preferred against the judgment of conviction and the order of sentence dated 01.03.2011 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, FTC-III, Dhanbad in Sessions Trial No. 44 of 2008, whereby the learned trial Court has convicted the appellant under Sections 323, 498A and 504 of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced to undergo RI for one year under Sections 323 and 504 of the Indian Penal Code and RI for three years under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code with a fine of Rs. 5000/-. In default of payment of fine, the appellant was further directed to undergo SI for one month. All the sentences were directed to run concurrently.

2. The brief facts of the prosecution case leading to this Criminal Appeal are that the informant Jasbir Kaur had given the written information to the police station concerned with these allegations that she was married nine years ago with Sardar Harjinder Singh in the year 1998 according to rites and rituals. Two baby girls were born out of the wedlock. One was seven years old and another was five years old. After two years of marriage, she was started being tortured and also hurled abuse by he