ORDER

The accused has filed this Revision Petition against the judgment of conviction and order on sentence dated 10th March 2015 passed in CC No.4322 of 2011 by the JMFC III Court, Mangaluru (for brevity, hereinafter referred to as the “trial Court”), which is confirmed by the judgment dated 21st February, 2017 passed in Criminal Appeal No.101 of 2015 by the Principal Sessions Judge, Dakshina Kannada, Mangaluru (for brevity, hereinafter referred to as the “Appellate Court”).

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

3. Brief facts of the prosecution case are that, Smt.

Padma Priya has set the criminal law into motion by filing a complaint dated 10th September, 2010, stating that on 10th September, 2010 at about 7.00 pm, she had parked her Scorpio vehicle bearing Registration No.KL-12/B-8080 within the precincts of T.M.A. Pai Hall to attend the marriage of her relative. It is further stated that she had kept jewels in her vanity bag beneath the seat of her vehicle and after attending the marriage, when she returned to the parking place at about 9.30 pm, she noticed that somebody had taken