ORDER

The concurrent verdicts of conviction and sentence of the petitioners for the commission of offences under Sections 323 and 324 IPC by the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court - V, Kozhikode, and the Additional Sessions Court - II, Kozhikode, are under challenge in this revision.

2. The prosecution case is that on 01.03.1998, at about 10.00 pm, the petitioners inflicted voluntary hurt upon PW1 by beating with a reaper, and also by beating and kicking him inside a temporary tea shop erected in connection with the festival of a temple, in which PW1 was officiating as the office bearer of the committee. The learned Magistrate had initiated the proceedings against the petitioners upon a private complaint filed by the defacto complainant / PW1.

3. After an evaluation of the evidence adduced by the complainant through the examination of PWs 1 to 4, and the documents marked as Ext.P1, and also after considering the defence evidence adduced through the oral testimony of DW1, the learned Magistrate found the petitioners guilty of the commission of the offences under Sections 323 and 324 IPC and convicted them thereunder. The 1^st petitioner was sentenced to undergo Simple Imprisonment