( 1 ) THE appellant Shiam Lal has been convicted under Section 498,. P. C. , by the learned sessions Judge, Agra, and has been sentenced to one years rigorous imprisonment.

( 2 ) IT appears that Smt. Govindi was living with her husband Babu Lal and father-in-law Jiwa ram in Mohalla Mohanpura, Police Station Rakabganj, in the district of Agra. The accused shiam Lal was employed at the shop of Babu Lal. On the 12th January 1952, Babu Lal found that his wife with the younger daughter was missing from the house and that some ornaments and cash were also missing. He made a report about it at Police Station Rakabganj the same day at 3 oclock in the afternoon and in that report he suspected the appellant Shiam Lal, Gopi Lal and Balwanta. It was alleged in the report that Smt. Govindi had either been taken in connection with illicit intimacy or she herself had gone away with the accused. No witnesses were mentioned in the report and it was stated that their list shall be submitted in Court. Govindi was found in Court on the 7th April 1952, along with the accused. They wanted to take her away by force but were unsuccessful. She was brought by the brother of Babu Lal to his house