ORDER

This Criminal Revision Case has been filed, assailing the judgment in Crl.A.No.60 of 2022 on the file of the learned I Additional District and Sessions Court (PCR), Tiruchirappalli, dated 06.11.2023, confirming the conviction and sentence imposed by the judgment dated 07.07.2022 in C.C.No.480 of 2018 on the file of the learned Judicial Magistrate No.I, Tiruchirappalli and acquit the accused.

2. The case of the respondent/complainant is that in the first week of May 2018, the petitioner voluntarily approached the respondent and persuaded him to provide 175 grams of gold jewelry for a business purpose, promising to return it within a week. However, by the first week of June 2018, the petitioner returned only 43 grams and failed to return the remaining 132 grams. On 27.07.2018, the petitioner has issued cheque bearing number 000278 for a sum of Rs.5,00,000/- dated 06.08.2018 towards the repayment of accused liabilities. When the respondent has presented the cheque for collection on 17.09.2018, the same was r