JUDGMENT :

G. RADHA RANI, J.

1. This appeal is preferred by the appellant/accused aggrieved by the conviction and sentence recorded by the Special Sessions Judge-cum-Additional District and Sessions Judge, Ranga Reddy District vide orders in S.C. No. 63 of 2010 dated 28.08.2021 imposing a sentence to suffer simple imprisonment for a period of six months for the offence under Section 417 IPC.

2. The case of the prosecution, in brief, as per the charge-sheet filed by the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Saroornagar Division, Cyberabad was that the complainant, who was the mother of the victim women came to the Police Station, Vanasthalipuram, on 29.12.2009 at 1.00 P.M. and lodged a report that her daughter R. Ashalatha, Woman Home Guard-1051 was working in Woman P.S. Saroornagar. The accused, who was working as P.C. 499 in bomb diffusal team dog squad, Amberpet, induced her daughter by promising to marry representing that he was an unmarried person and set up marital life in a room at Amberpet and had been leading marital life with her since 2008. Thereafter, they came to know that he was already married and was having two children. When the complainant and her daughter enquired with t