The Court made the following JUDGMENT:

1. This appeal, under sections 378(1) and (3) of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short, ‘Cr.P.C’) is preferred by the Appellant / State against the judgment of acquittal rendered by the learned Assistant Sessions Judge, Tanuku (for short, ‘the Trial Court’) in Sessions Case No.410 of 2006 by its judgment dated 08.09.2008 acquitted the accused for the offence punishable under sections 509, 307 and 354 of Indian Penal Code, 1860 (for short, ‘IPC’).

2. Perused the impugned judgment of acquittal rendered by the Trial Court, which is challenged under this appeal. It consisted of evidence of PWs.1 to 9 and documents Exs.P.1 to P.8 and M.O.1, were marked. On behalf of the accused, Exs.D.1 to D.5 were marked.

3. The facts in a nutshell, which give rise to the present appeal, are as follows:

(a) The accused and the de facto complainant (PW.1- Alluri Subba Lakshmi) are residents of Tanuku. PW.1 is the accused's sister, and her husband (PW.2-Alluri Madhavarao) is an advocate at the Tanuku Bar Association. PW.3 (Chilaparapu Brahmanandam) owns Ac.3.50 cents of agricultural land situated at K.Illindaraparru village, which had been cultivated by the accuse