Darshan Singh, J. - The present appeal has been preferred against the judgment of conviction dated 13.3.2013 vide which appellant-Ved Parkash has been held guilty and convicted for the offence punishable under Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code (for short the `IPC') and order of sentence of the even date vide which he has been sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of 7 years and to pay a fine of Rs. 5,000/-. In default of payment of fine, he was ordered to further undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of 3 months.

2. The brief facts of the prosecution case are that on 31.8.2010, the prosecutrix moved a written complaint Ex.P5 to the SHO, Police Station City, Fatehabad, alleging therein that her marriage was solemnised with Gaurav Chhabra on 21.6.2010. Her husband was running a shop of selling shoes in Main Bazar, Fatehabad, in partnership with appellant-Ved Parkash. That on 5.7.2010 at about 5 P.M, she was taking bath in the bathroom of her house. Accused-appellant Ved Parkash came to their house and took her nude photographs while she was taking bath through a ventilator of the bathroom. When she came out after taking bath, accused appellant-Ved P