ORDER :

Heard Sri B. Madhusudan Adiga, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner-accused and Sri Vinay Mahadevaiah, learned High Court Government Pleader appearing for the respondent-State.

2. The petitioner has filed this revision petition under Section 397 read with Section 401 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, (for short, 'Cr.P.C.') praying to set aside the judgment of conviction and order on sentence dated 8-12-2014 passed by the Civil Judge and Judicial Magistrate First Class, Sringeri, in Criminal Case No.115 of 2012 and confirmed by the II Additional Sessions Judge, Chikkamagaluru, in Criminal Appeal No.159 of 2014 dated 11-1-2017.

3. For the sake of convenience, the parties are referred to as per their ranking before the trial Court. The petitioner is the accused and the respondent is the complainant-State.

4. The brief facts of the prosecution case are that on 7-5-2012 at about 3:30 p.m., the accused along with one Umesh had been to Hanumanagundi Falls in a Maruti Omni van bearing Registration No.KA-18/A-8651. The complainant-PW1-Raju was deputed to discharge his official duty at Hanumanagundi Falls, he asked the accused to purchase entry ticket by paying Rs.20/-for