G.R.Majithia, J.

1. The appellant has come up in appeal against his conviction and sentence under section 376 of the Indian Penal Code recorded by Additional Sessions Judge (III), Rohtak.

2. The prosecution story, briefly put, is as under :-

The prosecutrixs father PW-8 Raghbir Singh is working as a Khalasi at Railway Station, Shakur Basti Delhi; that he used to go to Delhi from his village Pehrawar; that on the evening of December 9, 1985 Murti asked him that she was to go to Nangloi and her husband was to attend his duties during night, he should send the prosecutrix to her house so that she could sleep there with her small children; that the prosecutrix went to the house of Murti; that she alongwith Nirmala, Vedu and Sushma went to sleep; that Nirmala and the prosecutrix had slept on one cot, while on the other cot, the other children had slept; that the door of the room was bolted from inside; that at about mid-night, the accused appellant knocked at the door of the house and the same was opened by Vedu; that the accused lighted a lamp and then put it off and thereafter, he threatened the prosecutrix and the children of Murti; that the accused picked up the prosecutrix