1This Criminal Revision Case is directed against the judgment dated 7-11-2001 passed in Cri C,. No. 28 of 2001 on the file of Sessions Judge, Mahila Court, Visakhapatnam, whereby the learned Sessions Judge confirmed the conviction of the accused for the offence under S.417, IPC passed in C.C. No. 820 of 2000 on the file of III Metropolitan Magistrate, Visakhapatnam, while reducing the sentence of imprisonment from six months to one month.

2. The petitioner herein is the accused in C.C. 820 of 2000. The prosecution case in brief is as follows :

P.W. 1 P. Maseenamma is daughter of P.W. 2 P. Bhulokamma and L.W. 8 Peerla Apparao. The petitioner / accused used to visit the house of junior paternal uncle of P.W. 1 and thereby acquaintance developed between P.W. 1 and the petitioner / accused. The petitioner / accused went around P.W. 1 saying that he loved her and he wanted to marry her. He also told her that he could not live without her company. He started inducing P.W. 1 with promise to marry her. On one day finding P.W. 1 alone in the house, the petitioner / accused pressured her to come out and took her to the house of P. Bapanna which was then vacant and made her to succumb to his