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The concurrent verdicts of the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court-II, Chengannur, and the Additional Sessions Court, Mavelikkara, convicting and sentencing the petitioner for the commission of offence under Section 332 of the Indian Penal Code , 1860 (in short, ‘ IPC '), are under challenge in this revision.

2. The prosecution case is that on 22.08.1999, at about

06:45 pm, the petitioner physically assaulted PW3, a Police Constable, at Kodukulanji-Mavelikara public road. It is alleged that the petitioner had torn the shirt worn by PW3, bit his left thumb finger, pulled him down and hit on his left shoulder with a granite stone.

3. In the trial before the learned Magistrate, the prosecution examined six witnesses as PW1 to PW6, and brought on record six documents as Exts P1 to P6, and one material object as MO1. From the part of the defence, one witness was examined as DW1 to show that the petitioner was undergoing psychiatric treatment. After the evaluation of the aforesaid evidence, the learned Magistrate found that the prosecution has successfully established the offence alleged against the petitioner. The learned Magistrate also held that there were no reasons to inv