JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: This Criminal Revision Petition is filed under Section 397 r/w. 401 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, to call for the records and set aside the judgment passed by the learned III Additional District and Sessions Judge, Trichy, dated 21.02.2017, in C.A.No.3 of 2016, by confirming the judgment dated 28.07.2015, in C.C.No.175 of 2013, on the file of the Judicial Magistrate Court, Musiri, and acquit the petitioner.)

1. The present Criminal Revision Case has been filed against the concurrent findings made in C.C.No.175 of 2013, dated 28.07.2015, on the file of the Judicial Magistrate Court, Musiri, and in C.A.No.3 of 2016, dated 21.02.2017, on the file of the III Additional District and Sessions Judge, Trichirappalli.

2. The petitioner is an accused in C.C.No.175 of 2013, on the file of the Judicial Magistrate Court, Musiri. The respondent filed the said case by way of private complaint alleging that the petitioner has committed an offence punishable under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act. The trial Court, by judgment dated 28.07.2015, found the accused guilty under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonmen