1. The present appeal has been preferred by the accused/appellant being aggrieved by the Judgment of conviction passed in Special Case No.69/2010 by District & Sessions Judge Yadgir by its Judgment and order dated: 24-06-2011.

2. The brief matrix of the case of the complainant are that, complainant is working as village accountant of Balkal village. On 09-12-2009 during morning hours, he went to the office of Tahasildar at Shahapur for some work, at that time, Tahsildar informed about illegal construction of house by one Siddaling Reddy of Balkal village and he instructed the complainant to enquire whether he has obtained necessary permission for construction of the house. Complainant went to Balkal village and met the said Siddaling Reddy and when he was asking, whether he has got permission or not to construct the house, the son-in-law of Siddaling Reddy Neelkanth Raya the present accused/appellant, came there and abused him as K “KANNADA” and by abusing so he slapped thereafter pulled for which he fell down and sustained injuries and by seeing the same one Shivappa, Mallayya, Channappa and others came and pacified the quarrel. Subsequently the complainant went to the po