R. MALA, J.

1. The Criminal Appeal has been filed against the judgment of conviction and sentence dated 04.09.2014 made in S.C. No. 302 of 2013 on the file of the 1st Additional Sessions Judge, Madurai, wherein, the appellant/accused was convicted for the offence under Section 3(1) of Tamil Nadu Property (Prevention of Damages and Loss) Act 1992, (T.N. Act No. 59 of 1992) and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for one year and to pay a fine of Rs. 1,000/- in default to undergo simple imprisonment for three months.

2. The case of prosecution briefly is as follows:-

(i) P.W.1 Duraipandi/defacto complainant is the owner of car bearing registration No. T.N. 58 x 8887 and residing at Madurai Town Puttuthope main road at Kattunaickan Colony and the appellant/accused is also residing in the same area and there was a quarrel between some of the persons of their street and the accused due to distributing the Deepavali find, which was collected by the appellant/accused and the defacto complainant informed the same to the police Control Room and the police came there and brought the accused to the police station and hence, there was an enmity between the defacto complainant