( 1 ) THE revision petitioner stands convicted for the offence punishable under Section 395 of the Indian Penal Code ( the IPC for brevity) and sentenced to suffer rigorous imprisonment for six years and further sentenced to pay a fine of rs. 50/- and in default to suffer simple imprisonment for one month by the learned principal Assistant Sessions Judge, Warangal, by his Judgment dated 5. 8. 1997 passed in s. C. No. 57 of 1997. On appeal, the learned ii Additional Sessions Judge, Warangal, in criminal Appeal No. 106 of 1997 confirmed the said conviction and sentence by his judgment dated 16. 05. 2000.

( 2 ) THE revision petitioner is A. 3 in the case. He along with A. 1 was tried for the offence punishable under Section 395 of the IPC. The gravamen of the charge against him was that he, A. 1, along with four others on the intervening night of 07/08. 12. 1993 at Ganturpally village committed dacoity in the house of Kancherlakunta Peddi reddy and decamped with valuables and thereby committed the offence punishable under Section 395 of the IPC.

( 3 ) IN order to prove the said charge, the prosecution examined as many as 14 witnesses and got Exs. P. 1 to P. 10 and M.