( 1 ) BOTH these revisions are directed against the Judgment of the Eighth citv Magistrate, Hyderabad, dated 23rd May, 1960, finding the accused (petitioner in Criminal R C. No. 512 of 1960) hereinafter referred to as the accused, guilty of an offence under sections 323, Indian Penal Code, and sentencing him to pay a fine of Rs 50. Criminal R. C. No. 525 of 1960 has been preferred by the complamnant in the case asking for enhancement of the sentence. The revisions arising out of the same Judgment are heard together.

( 2 ) THE facts leading up to these revisions may be briefly noticed : on 31st December, 1959, at about 6 P. M. , the complainant (petitioner in criminal RC No. 525 of 1960), hereinafter referred to as the complainant, went to the house of the accused for the purpose of asking him for the repayment of a loan previously advanced by her to the accused. The accused and his wife came oat of the house and the accused beat her with a ruler on the head, and on or around the thighs a Police Constable had come there and took the complainant and the accused to the police-station, where the complainant lodged a report, which, however was treated as non-cognizable by the Police an

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