JUDGMENT :

PRADEEP KUMAR SRIVASTAVA, J.

Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned APP for the State.

2. The present criminal revision is directed against the judgment dated 17.12.2014 passed by learned District & Additional Sessions Judge-II, Gumla in Criminal Appeal No. 28 of 2013, whereby and whereunder the appeal preferred by the petitioners against the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 30.01.2013 passed by learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gumla in G.R. 1090 of 2006 (T.R. No. 186 of 2013) arising out of Sisai (Bharno) P.S. Case No. 144 of 2006, whereby the petitioners have been held guilty for the offence under Section 498A of the I.P.C. and sentenced them to undergo S.I. for two years and to pay a fine of Rs.1,000/- each with default stipulation, has been affirmed.

3. The factual matrix of the case giving rise to this revision is that informant Usha Devi was married with petitioner Ajay Oaon in the year 2004 and out of their wedlock, they were blessed with one son, who was about 1½ years at the time of institution of FIR in the year 2006. As per FIR, the allegation is that since last six months ago, she was being assaulted by her husb