IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE G.GIRISH TH WEDNESDAY, THE 15 DAY OF OCTOBER 2025 / 23RD ASWINA, 1947 CRL.REV.PET NO. 183 OF 2007 AGAINST THE JUDGMENT DATED 06.04.2006 IN CRL.A NO.792 OF

2004 OF ADDITIONAL SESSIONS COURT (ADHOC)-II, KOZHIKODE ARISING OUT OF THE JUDGMENT DATED 05.11.2004 IN CC NO.62 OF 2002 OF JUDICIAL MAGISTRATE OF FIRST CLASS ,PERAMBRA REVISION PETITIONER/APPELLANT/ACCUSED:

RASHEED, S/O. MEERAN, KURACHUNDU AMSOM, DESOM, KOYILANDY TALUK.

RESPONDENT/RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT STATE OF KERALA REP. BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR, HIGH COURT OF KERALA.

OTHER PRESENT:

SRI RENJITH GEORGE, SR PP, SMT.VRINDA BABU AMICUS CURIAE.

THIS CRIMINAL REVISION PETITION HAVING BEEN FINALLY HEARD ON 15.10.2025, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY PASSED THE FOLLOWING:

O R D E R

The concurrent verdicts of the Fast Track Special Court (Adhoc-II), Kozhikode, and the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court-I, Perambra, convicting and sentencing the petitioner for the commission of offence under Sections 448 & 323 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (in short, ‘IPC'), are under challenge in this revision petition.

2. The prosecution case is that on 23.01.2002, at about

9:30 p.m., the p