JUDGMENT :

(The case has been heard through Video Conference)

The convicted first accused is the appellant herein.

2. This Criminal Appeal has been filed to challenge the judgment passed in Spl.S.C.No.127 of 2015, by the learned District and Sessions Judge, special cases for SC/ST Act cases, Villupuram, dated 19.11.2015.

3(a).The case of the prosecution is that in the complaint given by one Subburayan (PW1), it is stated that the complainant and the accused are having adjacent lands. On 15.01.2012 at about 5.00 p.m., while the complainant was working in his land, at the time, the appellant herein and his brother trespassed into his land and threatened him to cut the palm trees situated in his land and when the same was questioned by the complainant, the appellant and his brother used filthy language and also abused complainant's community name and threatened him with dire consequences. Hence, the complainant has preferred a complaint before the Anadapuram police station.

3(b). Based upon the complaint given by the complainant, the Inspector of Police, Ananthapuram, Gingee Taluk, has registered a case in Crime No.15 of 2012 for offence under Section 294(b), 447, 506(ii) of IPC read with