Challenging and impugning the judgment dated 23. 2006 passed by the Judicial Magistrate No.1, Mettur, in C.C.No.179 of 2003, this criminal revision case is focussed.

2. Avoiding digressive discussion, pithily and precisely, I would like to portray the facts as under:

(a) The police laid the police report in terms of Section 173 of Cr.P.C. as against respondents 2 to 14 herein for the offence under Sections 447, 427, 379 IPC on the ground that on 22. 2003, at about 9.45 p.m.(night), near Kaveripuramvinayagapuram, the accused persons constituted an unlawful assembly, armed with deadly weapons, such as crowbar, axe etc., and trespassed into the P.W.1s private pathway and cut and removed his gates worth Rs.1000/-and took them away. Inasmuch as the accused pleaded not guilty, the trial was conducted.

(b) During trial, on the prosecution side P.Ws.1to 6 were examined and Exs.P1 to P5 were marked. On the accuseds side no oral evidence was adduced, however, Exs.R1 to R3 were marked.

(c) Ultimately, the trial Court acquitted the accused of the offence with which they were charged.

.3. Animadverting upon the said acquittal, this revision has been filed on various grounds, the pith