O R D E R

The de facto complainant in Crime No.2003/2017 of Palarivattom Police Station, has filed this revision petition, challenging the order dated 29.04.2023 of the Fast Track Special Court, Aluva, discharging the accused in the said crime. The offences alleged against the accused were under Sections 376(2)(n), 294(b), 341, 323, 324, 452 & 506 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (in short, ‘ IPC ').

2. The prosecution case, in conspectus, is as follows:

The petitioner/de facto complainant was an employee in the supermarket run by the family of the accused. The accused, who belonged to the Muslim community, performed a ceremony of marriage with the de facto complainant on 29.12.2008, at Chottanikkara Temple, after getting a coupon for marriage from the said temple. Thereafter, without registering the above marriage, the accused and the de facto complainant started residing together as husband and wife. In the above wedlock, a child was born to them. At the time of school admission of the above child, there arose some issue with regard to the absence of a marriage certificate between the de facto complainant and the accused. At that time, the accused approached this Court, and conse