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2026 Supreme(Online)(Ker) 33889

IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM
Jobin Sebastian, J
James – Appellant
Versus
State Of Kerala – Respondent


Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: Jose J. Mathaikal
For the Respondents: Hasna Mol N S

Table of Content
1. procedural history and factual allegations of property damage by an unlawful assembly. (Para 1 , 2 , 3 , 4)
2. summary of arguments presented by the parties regarding the necessity of revising the conviction. (Para 6 , 7)
3. legal standard for revisional jurisdiction and assessment of evidence credibility. (Para 8 , 10 , 11)

JUDGMENT

These criminal revision petitions have been filed under Section 397 and 401 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, challenging the judgment dated 15.10.2010 in Criminal Appeal Nos.178/2008 and 184/2008 on the file of the Additional Sessions Court (Adhoc--II), Ernakulam, which arose out of C.C. No.1088/2002 on the file of the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Kothamangalam. The revision petitioners herein are the

1st, 3rd, and 4th accused in the said case.

2. The prosecution case is that on 18.06.2002, at about

8:30 p.m., Accused Nos. 1 to 15 formed themselves into an unlawful assembly and, in prosecution of their common object, trespassed into the Forest Station, Valara, after arriving there in two jeeps bearing Registration Nos. KL-5/D-8006 and KL-7/S-439, armed with sticks. Further, it is alleged that the accused smashed the windowpanes

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