THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE V.SRINIVAS CRIMINAL REVISION CASE No.2171 of 2011

ORDER:

Assailing the Judgment, dated 02.09.2011 in Criminal Appeal No.77 of 2011on the file of the Court of learned XI Additional District & Sessions Judge, Tenali, confirming the conviction and sentence passed against the petitioner/accused by Judgment, dated 08.03.2011 in S.C.No.573 of 2010 on the file of the Court of learned Principal Assistant Sessions Judge, Tenali, for the offencepunishable under Section 354 of Indian Penal Code (hereinafter referred to as “IPC”), the petitioner/accused filed the present criminal revision case under Section 397 read with 401 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973.

2. The revision case was admitted on 31.10.2011 and the sentence of imprisonment imposed against the petitioner was suspended, vide orders in Crl.R.C.M.P.No.3259 of 2011.

3. Thecase of the prosecution in nutshell was:

i). On 25.04.2010 at about 3.00 p.m., while PW2 who is first year student of B.Tech, ECE branch in Chintalapudi Engineering College was waiting at Tummapudi cross roads for an auto to go to Chintalapudi after completing examinations in her college, the appellant went towards her and stated that he will