1. This Criminal Appeal is filed, against the judgment of conviction and sentence, dated 03.09.2009, made in SC.No.497 of 2007, by the learned VI Additional District and Sessions Judge, Chennai, convicting and sentencing the Appellant, for the offence under Section 417 of IPC, to undergo six months Rigorous Imprisonment and to pay a fine of Rs.5,000/-, in default, to undergo three months Simple Imprisonment and for the offence under Section 306 of IPC, to undergo five years Rigorous Imprisonment and to pay a fine of Rs.50,000/-, in default, to undergo one year Simple Imprisonment and ordering the sentences to run concurrently.

2. The case of the Prosecution is that a love affair prevailed between the Appellant/accused and the deceased, Devi for six months, before the date of occurrence and that the Appellant/accused, on a false promise to marry the deceased, induced her and had sexual intercourse, due to which, the deceased became pregnant and that on 07.09.2007 and 08.09.2007, when the deceased demanded the Appellant/accused to marry her, the Appellant/accused refused to marry her and being dejected by such refusal, the deceased committed suicide on 08.09.2007 at about 11