( 1 ) THE revision petitioner stands convicted under Section 498-A of the Indian penal Code ( the IPC for brevity) and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year and further sentenced to pay a fine or Rs. 500/- and in default to suffer simple imprisonment for two months by the learned II Metropolitan Magistrate, Visakhapatnam, by her judgment dated 10-11-1998 in C. C. No. 411 of 1997 and the same has been affirmed by the learned Sessions Judge, Mahila Court, Visakhapatnam, in Criminal Appeal No. 169 of 1998 dated 11-5-2000.

( 2 ) THE revision petitioner is the 1st accused. the case against the petitioner was that this his marriage with PW-1 was performed on 25-5-1989 at Tirupati and that at the time of marriage on demand from the petitioner, PW-3 the father of PW-1 paid an amount of Rs. 40,000/- towards dowry and gave six tulas gold jewellery to PW-1. The petitioner and PW-1 lived together happily for two years and that in the year 1991, the petitioner developed illicit intimacy with A4 and started harassing and ill-treating PW-1. PW-1 therefore, gave a report against the petitioner in IV Town Police Station in the year 1992 and it ended in compromise