B. SUBHASHAN REDDY, J.

( 1 ) THIS Criminal Revision case is directed against the judgment dated 8-1-2002 passed in Criminal Appeal No. 227 of 1999 on the file of I Additional District and Sessions Judge, Kumool, by which the learned Additional District and Sessions judge confirmed the conviction of accused harijana Gadi Lingappa @ Gadigadu for the offence under Section 354 EPC while modifying the conviction and sentence of the accused for the offence under Section 324 ipc to 323 IPC passed in S. C. No. 490 of 1996 on the file of Assistant Sessions judge, Adoni.

( 2 ) THE petitioner herein is the sole accused in S. C. No. 490 of 1996 on the file of Assistant Sessions Judge, Adoni. He was put on trial before the Assistant Sessions judge, Adoni, for the offences punishable under Sections 354 and 324 IPC. The accusation made against the accused/ petitioner is that on 8-6-1996 about 10 a. m. at Gangamma Beedu Vanka, Kaminahal village, assaulted P. W. 1 and used criminal force on her by holding her hand and forced her for sexual intercourse and thereby he outraged her modesty. The further accusation made against him is that he voluntarily caused hurt to P. W. 1 by giving a blow with a sto

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