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The concurrent findings of the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court-II, Ernakulam, and the Sessions Court, Ernakulam, in C.C.No.1019/1996 & Crl.A.No.530/2005, respectively, convicting the petitioner for the commission of offence under Sections 419, 420 & 468 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (in short, ‘ IPC '), are under challenge in this revision petition filed by the first accused in the said case.

2. The prosecution case relates to a loan fraud perpetrated by the petitioner herein and four others upon the KSFE. It is alleged that the petitioner herein moved an application for a loan for the purchase of TV and stabilizer, before the KSFE Hire Purchase Unit, Ernakulam, on 18.01.1995, impersonating himself as one M.A. Babu, with second and third accused as guarantors. It is further alleged that even the second and third accused signed the loan documents impersonating themselves as the fourth and fifth accused. The matter came to light pursuant to a dispute between the accused in sharing the unjust enrichment they gained from the aforesaid loan fraud.

3. Before the Trial Court, the prosecution examined eight witnesses as PW1 to PW8, and brought on rec