JUDGEMENT
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(1.)Leave granted.
(2.)The Appellant was tried by the Additional Sessions Judge, Faridabad in Sessions Case No. RBT-8 of 1999 for offences punishable under Sections 376 and 450 of the Indian Penal Code. By judgment and order dated 3/8/2001, learned Additional Sessions Judge convicted the Appellant for the offence punishable under Section 376 of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced him to undergo rigorous imprisonment for seven years and to pay a fine of Rs. 5,000/-. In default of payment of fine, he was directed to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of one year. The Appellant was also convicted for offence punishable under Section 450 of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for two years and to pay a fine of Rs. 1,000/-. In default of payment of fine, he was directed to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of two months. The substantive sentences were ordered to run concurrently. Being aggrieved by the said conviction and sentence, the Appellant filed criminal appeal in the Punjab and Haryana High Court. By the impugned judgment, the High Court dismissed the said appeal. Hence, this appeal, by special leave.
(3.)According to the prosecution on 12/3/1999, the prosecutrix who was examined as PW-5 was watching a film on television along with her younger brothers till 12.30 in the night. Both her brothers went to sleep. She went outside the veranda to relieve herself. The Appellant, who is her neighbour, was standing on the wall of his house. He jumped from the wall, came to her house and raped her. When the prosecutrix raised alarm, her elder brother PW-1 Fateh Ram came there whereupon the Appellant ran away. The prosecutrix lodged her complaint on 14/3/1999 on the basis of which investigation was set into motion. After completion of investigation, the Appellant came to be charged as aforesaid.
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