Indermeet Kaur, J.

1. This appeal is directed against the impugned judgment dated 22.3.2004 of the learned Additional Sessions Judge which had set aside the order passed by the learned M.M. dated 31.7.2003. Learned M.M. on the complaint filed by the appellant (Pawan Kumar Kohli) under Section 499 of the IPC had convicted the respondent (Sudesh Kumar Kohli) and had held him guilty under Section 500 of the IPC and sentenced him to undergo SI for a period of 6 months. The impugned judgment had reversed the order of the Magistrate and had acquitted the respondent. This judgment is the subject matter of the present appeal.

2. Record reveals that on 20.7.2003 a complaint had been filed by the respondent before the SHO of local police station West Patel Nagar wherein the gist of the complaint was that because of a dispute between the two cousins i.e. the appellant and the respondent relating to a property, the respondent was aggrieved by the acts of the appellant. The appellant (present in person) had pointed out the defamatory lines in the aforenoted complaint. They read as under:

(a) Yeh log badmash kism ke log hain.

(b) Yeh ladka aur iski maa bahut badchalan hai.

(c) In lo