M.M.Aggarwal, J.

1. Bhupinder Singh had filed appeal against judgment dated 20.7.1999 of Additional Sessions Judge, Chandigarh whereby accused-appellant Bhupinder Singh was convicted for the offence under Sections 376/417 IPC. He was sentenced to undergo RI for seven years and to pay fine of Rs. 10,000/-, in default of payment of fine, he was to further RI for one year under Section 376 IPC. He was further sentenced to undergo RI for nine months under Section 417 IPC.

2. Prosecution case against the accused-appellant was registered on written complaint filed by Manjit Kaur that she was employed as Clerk in All Bank Employees Urban Salary Earners Thrift Credit Society Ltd. and worked as such till September 1991. She was daily commuting from Naraingarh District Ambala, where her sister was residing. Bhupinder Singh was employed as Data Entry Operator in the State Bank of Patiala, Sector 17-C, Chandigarh. He used to come to her office and developed intimacy and then asked her to marry after disclosing himself as unmarried person. Accused Bhupinder Singh insisted upon her to get married at the earliest in a Gurdwara through simple ceremony and said that permission from the pare