COMMON JUDGMENT

(Judgment of the Court was delivered by N.ANAND VENKATESH, J)

1.These criminal appeals have been filed by A1 to A3 assailing the judgment passed in SC No.190 of 2017 dated 02.06.2023 on the file of the Additional District and Sessions Judge, Virudhunagar, wherein the appellants were convicted and sentenced in the following manner:

The above sentences were ordered to run concurrently.

2. The case of the prosecution is that PW1 and her husband PW3 are residing in Periya Vallikulam. PW4 is the daughter of PW1 and PW3. Injured Babyammal and Alagarsamy are the parents of PW1. A1 is the brother of PW1 and they have three sisters out of which one was examined as PW23. A3 is the wife of A1 and A2 is the brother of A3. The said Alagarsamy owns agricultural lands and house in his native place. When they were residing in that house, A1 to A3 are alleged to have driven them out of their house. A complaint was given by Babyammal at Soolakkarai Police Station and PW16 registered a case in Crime No.324 of 2014 for offence punishable under Section 294(b), 341, 506(I) and Section 24 of the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007. On an earlier occasion, during