ORDER :- This is rather an unusual case in the sense that rarely such an offence is brought before the criminal courts. P.W.1 was a school boy, aged about 15 years, studying in the III form in the Board High School, Tiruchengode. The petitioner who happened to be a teacher was in charge of the class in which P.W.1 was studying. The evidence shows that, on 4-2-1960, the petitioner asked P.W.1 to show the quarterly progress report relating to him to his parent, and, in token of having shown it, to get the signature of his father. The boy returned, not with the signature of his lather but with a thumb impression on the progress report which, he represented, was that of his mother.

Both the Courts below have now found that this was an untruth, as the thumb impression which the progress report bore was that of someone else and not that of P.W.1s mother. Evidently, suspecting that the thumb impression was not genuine, the petitioner got excited and beat P.W.1 on the right palm with a stick. P.W.1 did not cry, and so, that is the prosecution case, the petitioner beat him again, asking why he did not cry. As a result, the boy sustained three injuries, two of them are said to be sup