Accused in Calendar Case No. 128 of 1993 on the file of the First Additional District Judge-cum-Chief Judicial Magistrate, Salem is the appellant in the above appeal. Initially the appellant herein was charge sheeted under Sections 467 and 468 I.P.C. along with two others. Subsequently the case was tried only against the appellant and, by the impugned judgment, the learned First Additional Sessions Judge, convicted him of the offences under Sections 467 and 468 I.P.C. and sentenced him to undergo Rigorous Imprisonment for five years under each of the two offences to run concurrently. Aggrieved by the said conviction and sentence, the appellant has filed the above appeal before this Court. For convenience I shall refer the appellant as accused.

2. The case of the prosecution is as follows: The accused is a friend of one Kaliappa Gounder, father of one K. Prakash who has been examined as P.W.1. They are residing in Kumalankuttai, Erode. In 1991 when P.W.1 was enquired by the police regarding ownership of a Maruthi Gipsy Jeep, he replied that he had not purchased any such vehicle. It is the case of P.W.1 that after some time, the accused enquired his address, avocation etc