O R D E R

The fifth accused in C.C.No.470/2001 on the files of the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Kolencherry, is the revision petitioner herein. He, along with other 19 accused, were convicted and sentenced by the learned Magistrate, for the commission of offences under Sections 143, 147, 447, 427, 323 & 341 read with Section 149 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (in short, ‘IPC') to remit fines of various amounts ranging from Rs.100/- to Rs.1,000/- with default clauses of simple imprisonments of various tenures. Though the aforesaid verdict of the learned Magistrate was challenged in appeals by the petitioner herein and accused Nos. 1 to 4, 6 to 10, 12 to 15 & 18 to 20, the Appellate Court refused to interfere with the findings of the learned Magistrate as against accused Nos.1 to 5, 7 & 8. However, the other appellants were acquitted by the Appellate Court. Aggrieved by the ab