ORDER

Challenging the judgment of the learned III Additional District and Sessions Judge, Pudukottai, in Criminal Appeal No.61 of 2021 dated 23.11.2022, confirming the conviction and sentence passed by the learned Fast Track Court (Magisterial Level), Pattukkottai, in C.C.No.29 of 2020 dated 22.04.2021, convicting the petitioner and imposing a fine of Rs. 500/-, in default to undergo one month simple imprisonment for the offence under Section 352 IPC, and sentencing him to one year simple imprisonment and a fine of Rs.10,000/-, in default to undergo three months simple imprisonment for the offence under Section 4 of the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act , 2002, this Criminal Revision Case is filed.

2.The revision petitioner is the accused in C.C.No.29 of 2020 on the file of the learned Judicial Magistrate (Fast Track Court). The prosecution case is that on 10.05.2018 at 08.00 a.m., when the defacto complainant had gone to her poultry farm along with her husband, Saminathan, at North Street, Kuruchi Village, within the jurisdiction of Vattathikottai Police Station, due to a previous enmity over a land dispute, the accused scolded her with filthy language, grabbed her