ORDER

The petitioner herein, who was the accused in CC No.1099/1997 on the files of Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Mattannoor, was convicted and sentenced by the learned Magistrate under Section 279 IPC to undergo Simple Imprisonment for three months and to pay fine Rs.500/-, and under Section 337 to undergo Simple Imprisonment for one month and to pay fine Rs.250/- with a default clause of Simple Imprisonment for 15 days. In the appeal preferred by the petitioner, the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Thalassery, confirmed the conviction and reduced the sentence of imprisonment to 15 days each under Sections 279 and 337 . Aggrieved by the aforesaid findings of the courts below, the petitioner is here before this Court with this revision.

2. The prosecution case is that on 07.09.1997 at about 10 am, the petitioner drove an autorikshaw in a rash and negligent manner likely to endanger human life, through a public road and caused the above vehicle to hit a child resulting in injuries to that child. The Trial Court relied on the evidence tendered by PW1 to PW8, and the documents marked as Exts.P1 to P6 from the part of the prosecution, and found the petitioner guilty of th