JUDGMENT: The complainant before the trial Court has come forward with the instant appeal against order of the XI Metropolitan Magistrate, Saidapet, Madras in C.C.No.2223 of 1985.

2. This appeal has arisen in this way:

The complainant is the legally wedded wife of the accused Nagalingam. The marriage between the complainant and the accused was celebrated on 6.9.1970 in Keelkolathur Village in Cheyyar Taluk in North Arcot District. In the lawful wedlock, three children were born to them. Later, the husband ill-treated the wife, as a result of which she had live away from him. Later, she came to know that the husband took one Kasthuri as the second wife on 18.6.1984. She came to know that the marriage was performed in R.C.C. Marriage Hall, at Thiruthani Temple as per the Hindu rites. She had preferred a private complaint before the learned Metropolitan Magistrate against the husband and certain other persons in C.C.No.2223 of 1985. The learned Metropolitan Magistrate conducted the trial and came to the conclusion that the offence is not established and accordingly acquitted all the accused. As against the acquittal, the complainant preferred Criminal Appeal No.67 of 1992. This Court pa

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