1 By this revision petition, the revision petitioner/ original accused/husband is challenging the Judgment and Order dated 12/04/2016 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Sangli in Criminal Appeal No.229 of 2009 thereby confirming his conviction of the offence punishable under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (“IPC” for the sake of brevity), so also the sentence of rigorous imprisonment for three years imposed on him for this offence by the trial Magistrate. Initially, the present revision petitioner along with the coaccused namely Mrs.Jayashree Shinde and Dnyanoba Shinde were prosecuted for offences punishable under Sections 498A, 494, 323 504 read with Section 34 of the IPC vide Regular Criminal Case No.249 of 1996 and by the Judgment and Order dated 20/08/2009, the learned Judicial Magistrate First Class, Tasgaon was pleased to convict the present revision petitioner along with accused No.2 Mrs.Jayashree Shinde for the offence punishable under Section 498A of the IPC and they both were sentenced to suffer rigorous imprisonment for three years. Accused No.3 Dnyanoba came to be acquitted of offences alleged against him. The present revision petitioner as