JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: Criminal Appeal filed under Section 374(2) of Criminal Code Procedure, to set aside the judgment of conviction passed in Sessions Case No.137 of 2014 dated 28.2.2019 on the file of the Mahalir Neethi Mandram (Mahila Court), Coimbatore and allowing the Appeal throughout by acquitting the Appellants.)

1. Challenging the judgment of conviction and sentence imposed by the Mahalir Neethi Mandram (Mahila Court), Coimbatore in Sessions Case No.137 of 2014 dated 28.2.2019, the present Criminal Appeal has been filed by the accused.

2. The case of the prosecution, as evinced from the prosecution witnesses and the complaint lodged by the de facto complainant is as under:-

(i) The marriage between her daughter and the accused, who is the son of the cousin of her husband was conducted on 27.8.2010 at Bishop Ambrose Marriage Hall, Pothanur in the presence of elders belonging to both the families. She had come to know that her daughter Gayathri was in love with A1 Thirupathi and that both the families joined together performed the marriage. After the marriage, her daughter was living at Kasthuribai Nagar, Chettipalayam in her husband’s house alongwith her father-in-law and mother