JUDGMENT :

D. Dash, J.

1. This revision has been directed against the judgment dated 10.08.2005 passed by the learned Sessions Judge, Phulbani in C.R.A. No. 42 of 2000.

By the said judgment, the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 24.8.2000 passed by the learned S.D.J.M., Phulbani in G.R. Case No. 379 of 1994 (T.R. No. 56 of 1995) convicting the petitioner (accused) for commission - of offence under section 420 of the Indian Penal Code (in short, 'the IPC') and sentencing him to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year and to pay fine of Rs. 500/- in default to undergo simple imprisonment for one month; have been confirmed.

2. The prosecution case, in brief, is that the informant when was working as a peon in a Girls' High School at Phulbani, the accused then was serving as a Peon in the Tahsil at Phulbani. On 4.1.1993, the informant withdrew a sum of Rs. 19,500/- from her account with State Bank of India, Khajuripada Branch for marriage of her only daughter. It is stated that the accused having seen the informant withdrawing money, in the same month approached her to give Rs. 11,000/- so that he would arrange a job for her son. It is stated that on repeated inducement