(Judgment of the Court was delivered by G.K.ILANTHIRAIYAN, J.)

This appeal has been preferred as against the Judgment passed in S.C.No.16 of 2019 dated 30.07.2021 on the file of the learned Principal Sessions Judge, Sivagangai, thereby convicting the accused for the offences punishable under Sections 341 and 302 of I.P.C.

2.The case of the prosecution is that on 16.04.2018, at about 08.00 p.m., due to property dispute, the accused trespassed into the house of the defacto complainant, abused her in filthy language, and threatened her husband with dire consequences. On 17.04.2018, at about 06.45 a.m., when the husband of the de facto complainant was on his way to the police station to lodge a complaint against the accused, the accused wrongfully restrained him, assaulted him with a wooden log, and abused him in filthy language. As a result, the victim sustained grievous injuries on his right ear and the back of his neck. Thereafter, the accused fled from the scene of the crime.

3.On the co