JUDGMENT :

(S.V. PINTO, J.)

1. The present appeal is filed by the appellant State under Section 378(1)(3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 against the judgement and order of acquittal passed by the learned Presiding Officer and Additional Sessions Judge, FTC No. 1, Vadodara (hereinafter referred to as “the learned Trial Court”) in Atrocity Case No. 51/2008 on 19.03.2010, whereby, the learned Trial Court has acquitted the respondents for the offence punishable under Sections 143, 147, 149, 323, 504 and 114 of IPC and Section 135 of B.P. Act and Section 3(1)(10) of Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (hereinafter referred to as “the Atrocities Act”).

1.1 The respondents are hereinafter referred to as “the accused” as they stood in the original case for the sake of convenience, clarity and brevity.

2. The brief facts that emerge from the record of the case are as under:

2.1 On 29.08.2008, the complainant - Babubhai Dhanjibhai Rohit along with his uncle Chimanbhai and aunt Shantaben Chimanbhai had gone to their agricultural land situated on Tarsali - Chikhodra Road and bearing old survey no. 126 and at that time, the accused Chirag Manubhai Amin, S