Criminal Appeal No. 269 of 1964 is filed by the State against the judgment of the Additional Sessions Judge of Mavelikara in Sessions Case No. 9 of 1963 acquitting the respondents (accused). The charge against the first accused was for committing forgery on page 19 in Book No. 1, volume 174, where a sale deed Exhibit P-1 had been copied and the second accused is charged for abetment of the above said forgery. P.W. 1 has filed the revision petition for the same relief.

The second accused is a licensed document writer of the Vennikulam Sub Registrar’s office. P.Ws. 1 and 2, husband and wife with others had sold three items of properties to the second accused under a registered assignment deed Exhibit P-1 item I, having an extent of 11 1/3 cents and item 2 being 12 cents in extent. In between these two items there was another property belonging to P.W. 2 having an extent of 19 1/3 cents which was not the subject-matter of the sale deed, Exhibit P-1 and it remaind in the possession of P.Ws. 1 and 2. On 24th November, 1961 P.Ws. 1 and 2 entered into an agreement to sell this item to P.W. 3. The second accuse d probably wanted it for himself and did not like an item of property in-