( 1 ) THE appellant aggrieved by the Judgment of the Special judge for Trial of cases under essential Commodities Act cum III Addl. Metropolitan Sessions Judge, Hyderabad in Sessions Case No. 61 of 1996 dated 23-10-1998 convicting the appellant-accused for the offence under Section 333 I PC and sentencing him to undergo S. I. for six months and also pay a fine of Rs. 1,000/-, in default to suffer S. I. for further three months, had preferred the present Criminal Appeal.

( 2 ) THE facts in brief are that on 28-07-1995 at about 0920 hours P. W. 1 while conducting the bus bearing No. Ap-9- z-81 Route No. 9y from Afzalgunj to yousufguda, and when the bus reached near nampally bus station, a passenger boarded the bus from front side exit in a rude manner and when P. W. 1 requested him to come from rear-side exit, since the ladies are getting down, the said person instead of getting down, got wild, picked up a quarrel with him, caught hold of his collar, pulled him, gave fist blows on his mouth and other parts of the body, resulting the upper side tooth broken and there was bleeding, and on seeing this, duty Controller, nearby Home Guards and driver came to his rescue,