1. This present appeal has been filed under S.374 of Cr. P.C against impugned Judgment of conviction and sentence dated 29.09.2022 and 30.09.2022 respectively passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge Gomati Judicial District, Udaipur in case No. S.T. 18 of 2012 whereby and whereunder the appellant has been convicted under S.376(1) of IPC and has been sentenced to suffer R.I for a period of 14 years with a fine of Rs.25,000/- u/S. 376(1) of IPC and with default stipulations.

2. The brief fact of this case is that on 05.07.2011 at around 4.00 pm. the daughter of the informant had gone missing from the house. On 06.07.2011 morning at around 4.15 A.M., he lodged a missing diary with the Maharani Outpost. Subsequently, the informant along with the police recovered the daughter of the informant from Adibasi Colony near Banduar Kaju Badam area. Thereafter, the victim informed the informant that on 05.07.2011 evening at around 7.00 p.m., when she was returning to her house from Maharani bazaar, on her way, at Sanjoymani Tilla, the accused persons wrongfully restrained her and had taken her to the nearby jungle and committed rape upon her one after another.

3. On the receipt of complai