ORDER :

Crl.R.P.No.175/2021 is filed to enhance the sentence imposed on the respondent-accused in Crl.A.Nos.1353/2017 and 1660/2017 dated 07.07.2020 passed by the LXVI Additional City Civil and Sessions Judge, Bengaluru City.

2. Crl.R.P.Nos.550/2020 and 552/2020 are filed to set aside the judgment of conviction and sentence in C.C.No.20643/2000 dated 30.08.2017 passed by the V Additional C.M.M., at Bengaluru and the judgment passed in Crl.A.Nos.1353/2017 and 1660/2017 dated 07.07.2020 passed by the LXVI Additional City Civil and Sessions Judge, Bengaluru City.

3. The parties are referred to in their original rankings as complainant and accused for the convenience of the Court, in order to avoid confusion.

4. The factual matrix of the case of the complainant before the Trial Court is that the accused committed the offences punishable under Sections 499 and 500 of IPC as he had printed and published defamatory articles in Kannada Journal “Parivala Pathrike” owned by him and also invoked the offences punishable under Sections 4, 5, 13, 14 and 15 of the Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867 for having made false declaration before the District Magistrate in the bottom of the last page