JUDGMENT :

KARUNESH SINGH PAWAR, J.

1. Heard Shri R.P. Shukla, learned counsel for the appellant and Shri Jayant Singh Tomar, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record.

2. The present appeal under Section 374 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 has been preferred by the accused/appellant Guddu alias Gokaran against the judgment and order dated 10.04.2003 passed by the Special Sessions Judge, Sitapur in Sessions Trial No. 487 of 1997 arising out of Case Crime No. 196 of 1996, under Sections 498A, 304B, 201 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, Police Station Ramkot, District Sitapur, whereby the appellant was convicted under Section 3/4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act and sentenced to undergo one year rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 1000/- and in default of fine to undergo two months’ additional imprisonment; and also convicted under Section 304-B I.P.C. and sentenced to undergo ten years’ rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 2000/- and in default of fine to undergo three months’ additional imprisonment. It was further directed that both the sentences will run concurrently.

3. The prosecution story, in brief, as per First Inform