JUDGMENT :

1. The State - the appellant herein has preferred this appeal being aggrieved by the judgment and order of acquittal passed in S.C.No.22/2009 dtd. 3/6/2011 by the Fast Track Court, Kollegala, for the offence under Sec. 341, 354, 323, 504, 306 of IPC.

2. Brief facts of the case are as follows:-

It is the case of the prosecution that, on 12/6/2008 at about 3.00 p.m., the Victim was standing in front of her house at Kunthurmole village. The accused came near her house and quarreled with her stating why she had quarreled with his wife in the Sangha. The Accused further dragged her nighty and caught her tuft and assaulted her with hands and also abused her in filthy language. He further told her that "go and die instead of alive". The accused has insulted the Victim in a public place. The Victim, after having been insulted, decided to end her life and brought the kerosene tin and poured the kerosene on her, and set the fire herself. Consequently, she has sustained burning injury. The Victim's husband who was sitting in the nearby place of the locality, had heard the sound of quarrel from the side of his house and rushed to the spot and saw that his wife was igniting. Immediately