JUDGMENT :

K.K.Ramakrishnan, J.

The appellant is the sole accused in S.C.No.116 of 2009, on the file of the learned Sessions Judge (PCR Cases), Sivagangai, filed this appeal challenging the conviction and sentence imposed against him, in S.C.No. 116 of 2009, dated 15.11.2018, by the learned Sessions Judge (PCR Cases), Sivagangai, and acquit the appellant.

2. The Brief facts of the prosecution case reads as follows:

Due to the money suit was decreed in favour of the defacto complainant, on 16.09.2006, at 07.00 a.m., when the defacto complainant was going near a well of the appellant situated at Koothakudi Kanmai, the appellant is said to have waylaid the accused and abused him in filthy language by using his caste name and threatened him with dire consequences. Based on which, the defacto complainant gave a complaint before the respondent police. P.W.7 registered a case in Crime No.276 of 2006, for the offences under Sections 294(b), 506(ii) of IPC and Section 3(1)(x) of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes, (POA) Act, 1989, (hereinafter, for the sake of brevity, referred to as “SC/ST Act”). Thereafter, P.W.8 conducted the investigation and filed the final report. The same was taken