ORDER

[Crl.Revision Petition No.1155 of 2017]

Dated : 20th November, 2024 This Criminal Revision Petition has been preferred by the appellant in Crl. Appeal No.191 of 2015 on the file of the III Additional Sessions Judge, Thodupuzha, against the judgment dated 31.8.2017 partly allowing the said appeal, by confirming the conviction under Section 279 and 304-A of IPC and Section 3 (1) r/w Section 181 of the Motor Vehicles Act (M.V.Act, for short)

and modifying the sentence passed against the revision petitioner.

2. The prosecution case is that on 16.9.2012 at about 3.15 p.m., the accused being the driver of the ambulance bearing registration No. KL-22- 2388 driven the same in a rash and negligent manner so as to endanger human life along the Kulamavu - Thodupuzha public road and when it reached Ayyakkad -Nadukani, it hit against the jeep, which came in opposite direction, bearing registration No.KL-6-9234, in which PW1, his wife and others were travelling and thereafter, hit against another car, which came from behind the jeep. As a result of the incident, the wife of PW1 sustained serious injuries and she succumbed to the injuries, while PW1 sustained minor injuries. It is also alleged