(Per Padmanabhan Nair, J.)

The accused in C.C.No.254 of 1990 on the file of Judicial First Class Magistrate-II, Attingal is the revision petitioner. The learned Magistrate found the revision petitioner guilty of the offence punishable under S.354 of the Indian Penal Code, convicted and sentenced to undergo Simple Imprisonment for six months. Challenging the conviction and sentence, the revision petitioner filed Crl.A.No.77 of 1993 before the Sessions Court, Thiruvananthapuram. The learned District Judge also concurred with the learned Magistrate and dismissed the appeal. This Criminal Revision Petition is filed challenging those concurrent findings.

2. The facts necessary for the disposal of this Criminal Revision Petition are as follows:- The accused and the de facto complainant are relatives. The de facto complainant is a housewife, aged about 42 years on the date of the incident. She is having two children. One of the sons is physically handicapped. The accused used to tease and ridicule the physically handicapped son of the de facto complainant. The son complained to the de facto complainant about the behaviour of the accused. She came to the house of the accused and told th