JUDGMENT

This Criminal Appeal has been filed by the sole accused challenging the judgment dated 02.08.2017 passed by the learned III Additional District and Sessions Judge (PCR), Madurai, in S.S.C.No.99 of 2014.

2. The brief facts of the case are as follows (i) The case of the prosecution is that the defacto complainant and the accused were living in the same village. The injured witnesses belong to Scheduled Tribe Community. The accused belong to the Backward Class community. The accused is residing nearby the resident of the defacto complainant's family. The defacto complainant used to keep pigs before his house and the accused disliked the pigs roaming near his street. In view of those previous motive on 26.10.2013, at about 1.30 p.m, the accused abused the mother-in-law of P.W.1 with filthy language and by making caste remarks. He also showed his private parts and shouting in a very obscene manner. When this was questioned by P.W.1, the accused took a knife from his dhoti and attacked P.W.1 on her head.

When her sister-in-law