JUDGMENT

1. Assailing the judgment dtd. 12/5/2009 in S.C.No.150 of 2006on the file of the Court of learned Assistant Sessions Judge at Tanuku, the petitioner/P.W.1/de facto complainant filed the present criminal revision case under Sec. 397 r/w.401 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973.

2. The revision case was admitted on 19/3/2010. During pendency of this revision, respondent Nos.2 and 4/accused Nos.2 and 4 died on 30/8/2017 and 12/4/2011 respectively and, as such, the present revision against respondent Nos.2 and 4 is dismissed as abated, vide order dtd. 1/12/2023.

3. The shorn of prosecution case is that:

i) On 5/3/2005 at about 05.00 p.m., due to disputes, accused Nos.3 and 4 abused P.W.4 in filthy language. Later, accused Nso.1 and 2 went out and on the instigation of accused Nos.3 and 4, they made an attack on the family of P.W.1. Then accused No.2 brought a knife from his house, abused P.W.1 in filthy language and forcibly hacked on the hand of P.W.1 by uttering that 'Chaavu Na Kodaka', as a result, P.W.1 sustained bleeding injury. Accused No.1 was also brought another knife from his house, attacked on P.W.2, hacked on his neck, head and both hands and caused bleeding injurie