JUDGMENT

1. This is an appeal under Section 417, Criminal P.C., filed on behalf of the Local Government against the judgment of Pt. Tika Ram, Additional Sessions Judge of Bahraich, dated 1st July 1932, acquitting the accused Parag and Sri Ram of offences under Sections 366, 366-A and 368, I.P.C. The story of the prosecution is as follows: Mt. Sitala Guria (a Kahar woman aged 15 years), was married a couple of years ago to Maiku of village Pharuaghat and lived with him. Her parents lived in village Gurhaiya where the accused Parag Guria also lived, and the latter was known to Mt. Sitala and her parents. One day, over a year ago in the Hindi month of Katik at about mid-day, Parag accused came to Mt. Sitala and informed her that Bijai Saran Mukhia of village Gurhaiya had beaten her parents and driven them out of the village and that they had gone to Lucknow leaving Rs. 2 to be given to her for her railway fare to Lucknow where they wanted her to follow them. Just then Maiku, the husband of Mt. Sitala, came to the spot and Parag told him that the talk he had just had with Mt. Sitala was about her parents and he then left the place. Later on in the evening Parag accused came to Maiku's h