JUDGMENT :-

(Smt.) Ranjana Prakash Desai, J.

The appellants who are original accused Nos. 1 to 6 respectively were tried in the Court of Additional District and Sessions Judge. Madural in Sessions Case No.444 of 2005 for various offences under the Indian Penal Code (for short the IPC) on the allegation that on 11.11.2004 at about 8.00 p.m. when complainant Ayyanar and his son Murugesan were standing at a common place all the accused came there and formed an unlawful assembly with deadly weapons. Accused No. 2 unlawfully restrained Murugesan. Accused No. 1 attacked complainant Ayyanar with an iron rod. He also attacked Murugesan with an aruval. Complainant Ayyanar lodged the FIR.

2. After completion of investigation, the accused were sent up for trial. At the trial the prosecution examined 16 witnesses. The accused denied the prosecution case Learned Additional District and Sessions Judge found accused Nos. 1 to 6 guilty, under Section 148 of the IPC. He sentenced each of them to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year and to pay a fine of Rs. 500/ - each, in default to undergo two months rigorous imprisonment. Accused No. 1 was found guilty under Section 325 of the IPC and was sent