O R D E R

The revision petitioners are the appellants in Crl. Appeal No. 36 of

2017 on the file of Special Court for SC/ST (POA) Act Cases, Manjeri.

2. The appellate court dismissed the appeal confirming the conviction and sentence passed against the revision petitioners in C.C. No.1222 of 2008 of the Judicial First Class Magistrate, Malappuram. As per the judgment of the trial court, the accused/revision petitioners were convicted and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of two years and to pay a fine of Rs.5,000/- each under Section 392 of IPC and in default of payment of fine, to undergo simple imprisonment for a period of one month each.

3. The prosecution case is that the revision petitioners snatched the gold chain of the de facto complainant on 08.04.2008, while the de facto complainant was walking through Koottilangadi-Paramammal road.

4. Heard Sri. Amina Akthar, the learned counsel representing the learned counsel for the revision petitioners and Sri. P. Alex M. Thombra, the learned Senior Public Prosecutor.

5. Even though the learned counsel for the revision petitioners argued that there are serious illegalities in the findings of the trial court and the a