JUDGMENT

This Criminal Appeal has been filed by the appellant/P.W.1 against the judgment of acquittal passed by the Sessions Judge, Mahalir Neethimandram, Pudukkottai in S.C.No.31 of 2015 dated 26.10.2016, wherein, the trial Court has acquitted the accused from the offence under Section 306 IPC and Section 4-B of the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act.

2. Aggrieved by the said judgment of acquittal, P.W.1, who is the brother of the deceased Sangeetha, has preferred this appeal.

3. The case of the prosecution is that the deceased Sangeetha was residing at Malaiyeedu and the accused also residing near the house of the deceased. The husband of the deceased namely Kottaichamy was working in abroad and the deceased Sangeetha along with her children were residing in Malaiyeedu. The accused taking advantage of the absence of the husband of the deceased Sangeetha very often gave the sexual torture to the deceased. In this regard, already complaints were given by the deceased before the police as against the accused. While so, on 17.06.2013 at about 01.30 p.m., when the deceased Sangeetha was alone in her house, the accused entered into the house of the deceased and harassed her