ORDER

Revision Petitioner-Smt. Zubaida, who was accused No.2 in both cases, has preferred these revision petitions against the judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 16th April, 2018 passed in Criminal Appeal No.4 of 2017 and judgment of conviction and order of sentence dated 19th April 2018 passed in Criminal Appeal No.6 2017 by IV Additional District and Sessions Judge, Dakshina Kannada, Mangaluru (for brevity, hereinafter referred to as the “Appellate Court”).

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties in this appeal are referred to as per their status and rank before the Appellate Court.

3. Brief facts of the prosecution case are that, accused 1 and 2, with an intention to commit criminal breach of trust, have received golden ornaments and money for their business purpose from PWs1 to 3 (in Crl.RP No.551 of 2018) from CW1 and CW4 to 6 (in Crl.RP No.552 of 2018) with a promise to return the same. Instead of returning the gold ornaments and money, the accused have dishonestly pledged the gold ornaments with several Banks and Finances and borrowed loan; thereby committed offence under Sections 406 and 420 of Indian Penal Code.

4. After filing charge sheet, case was regist