ORDER

The revision challenges the conviction and sentence imposed on the petitioner vide judgment dated 12.09.2024 passed in STC No.439 of 2022 by the learned Judicial Magistrate No.1, Vellore, Vellore District and confirmed by the learned Principal Sessions Judge, Vellore, vide judgment dated 29.11.2024 in C.A.No.46 of 2024.

2. The case of the prosecution is that during the State Election conducted in the year 2021, when the defacto complainant was given flying squad duty on 02.04.2021 to disperse a group of persons who were standing to distribute bribe to the voters, he saw the petitioner attempting to escape on seeing the flying squad; that when the defacto complainant and her team prevented the petitioner, the petitioner abused the defacto complainant and her team in filthy and obscene language and also prevented them from doing their official duty besides committing the offence of criminal intimidation; and that therefore, the petitioner was charged for the offence under Sections 294(b) , 353 , 506(1) and 171(E) of the IPC .

3. The prosecution had examined 6 witnesses as PW1 to PW6 and marked 9 documents as Ex.P1 to Ex.P9. The petitioner neither examined any witness nor marked an