JUDGMENT - M.P. KANADE, J.:---This revision Application is directed against the judgment and order passed by the learned Sessions Judge, Sangli, dated January 11, 1980 confirming the order of conviction and sentence passed by the learned Judicial Magistrate. First Class, Miraj dated July 27, 1979 convicting the accused-petitioner herein under section 7(1) of the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 (hereinafter referred to as the Act".)

2. Few relevant and material facts which give rise to this revision application are as under:---

The complaint---Sitaram Yeshwant Chandanshive (P.W. 1), who is a member of the Scheduled Caste, hails from Kumbhari in Jat taluka of Sangli district was employed as Nakedar in the Agricultural Department of Government of Maharashtra, and he at the material time was posted at the village Daphalapur in Jat taluka of Sangli district. The petitioner accused was also employed in the Agricultural Department as an Agricultural Assistant. He was also posted as Jat-a taluka place in Sangli district. It is the prosecution case that Chandanshive was on long leave with effect from November 5, 1978 to December 14, 1978. On December 15, 1978, after enjoying the said

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