P.N. PRAKASH, J.

1. The Appellants herein/accused were tried in S.C. No. 45 of 2010 by the Additional District and Sessions Judge (FTC No. I), Coimbatore and were convicted and sentenced as follows:-

Accused	Conviction u/s.	Sentence
A-1	302 IPC	Life Imprisonment and Fine of Rs. 1,000/- i/d Six months R.I.
A-2 to A-4	302 r/w 109 IPC	Life Imprisonment and Fine of Rs. 1,000/- i/d Six months R.I.
A-3	506(ii) IPC	One year R.I.

2. The case of the Prosecution in short is as follows:-

(a) The Public Toilet in the Village in which the accused and the victims hail was being maintained by Mother Theresa Self-Help Group, in which Kavitha (PW-6) was an active Member. On 3.8.2009 around 3.00 p.m., Madhaiyan (A-1) used the toilet and found it to be ill-maintained. He abused Kavitha (PW-6) and the other women-folk -Sonia (PW-1), Mallika and Sumathy, who were there in choicest epithets. When the women questioned him, he started further abusing them and called Kavitha (PW-6) a whore in vernacular, which escalated the altercation. Nothing