ORDER

The concurrent verdicts of the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court, Pathanamthitta and the Additional Sessions Court, Pathanamthitta, in C.C.No.210/2003 and in Crl.Appeal No.399/2005 respectively, convicting and sentencing the petitioner for the commission of offence under Section 324 of the Indian Penal Code , 1860, are under challenge in this revision.

2. The prosecution case is that on 11.07.2003 at about 8.00 pm, the petitioner inflicted voluntary hurt and grievous hurt upon PW1, his wife, by stabbing injury with a knife upon the palmar aspects of her right and left hands. It is stated that the relationship between the petitioner and PW1 got estranged, and that he was nurturing enmity with PW1. Thus, the Sub Inspector of Police, Koipuram Police Station had filed the Final Report before the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court, Pathanamthitta, alleging the commission of offences under Sections 324 and 326 IPC .

3. In the trial before the learned Magistrate, the prosecution examined 9 witnesses as PW1 to PW9, and brought on record 5 documents as Exts.P1 to P5. On the part of the petitioner, four contradictions in the prior statements of the witnesses, were marked as Exts.D1 to D4.