This petition is filed by the revision petitioner accused

under Section 397 read with Section 401 of Criminal

Procedure Code, 1973 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Code’ for

short) challenging the judgment of conviction and order of

sentence passed by JMFC, Mandya in C.C.No.651/2012 and

confirmed by II Additional Sessions Judge, Mandya in

Crl.A.No.54/2014 vide judgment dated 31.08.2015.

2.

For the sake of convenience, the parties herein are

referred with original ranks occupied by them before the trial

Court.

3.

The brief factual matrix leading to the case are that

on 19.03.2012 at 2.30 p.m. in front of Sanjo hospital on

Bangalore-Mysore Road, the accused being the driver of goods

tempo bearing registration No. KA-11/7729 drove it in a rash

and negligent endangering human life and public safety and in

the said process, he hit a pedestrian by name Nagaraju who

was standing adjoining the divider near a U-turn along with

his bicycle so as to cross the road and then the vehicle

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climbed over the road divider and over turned, as a result, the

lady by name Rajamma who was standing on the road divider

came beneath the vehicle and succumbed because of this

accident. In this accident, Naga